1 C-sugar
½ C-butter (or lard and butter mixed)
2 eggs
½ C-sour cream or sour milk
½ t-soda
½ t-salt
2 t-grated nutmeg
about 2 C-flour, or as little as possible
Cream the fat, add the sugar. Cream again. Add the eggs well beaten, sour milk, one cup flour, soda, salt and nutmeg mixed and sifted together. Add the rest of the flour. Roll out to one-third of an inch thickness, cut any desired shape, and bake in a moderately hot oven for fifteen minutes. Sugar mixed with a little flour may be sifted over the dough before cutting. Raisins may also be pressed into the top of each cooky.
Doughnuts (Thirty)
¼ C-sugar
1 egg beaten
2/3 C-milk
2 C-flour
½ t-salt
¼ t-cinnamon
2 t-baking powder
Mix the beaten egg and sugar, add the milk, flour, salt, cinnamon and baking powder, sifted together. Take one-half of the dough, and roll out one-third of an inch thick. Cut with a doughnut cutter. Roll and cut the other half. Put the scraps together and roll again. Fry in deep fat, turning until a delicate brown. Drain on brown paper.
CHAPTER XXVIII
POLLY AND THE CHILDREN
"WILL you look at the way that child eats her cereal!" ejaculated Polly at the breakfast table. "And I simply can't get her to eat it at home! In fact, on warm days like this, she won't eat any breakfast at all."