Mother Hubbard's cupboard: Recipes collected by the Young Ladies' Society, First Baptist Church, Rochester N.Y. Fourth Edition

by N.Y.). Young Ladies' Society First Baptist Church (Rochester

One cup brown sugar, one cup molasses, three-fourths cup butter, one teaspoon cinnamon, two teaspoons ginger. Stir together and put on the stove and warm, while sifting flour and beating the eggs. Then add one teacup sour milk, two eggs, four and one-half cups flour, one teaspoon soda, dissolved in a little hot water. Put in after the sour milk, one teacup chopped raisins.

Mrs. E. Holmes.

GINGER COOKIES.

One cup molasses, one-half cup lard, one-half cup boiling water, one teaspoon soda, one teaspoon ginger, a little salt, flour to roll out.

SEED COOKIES.

Two small cups of sugar, one cup butter, one-half cup sweet milk, one egg, two teaspoons baking powder, caraway seed. Mix very soft, roll out, cut in shapes; sprinkle sugar over the top and bake.

Mrs. G. Gould.

MOLASSES COOKIES.

One cup butter, one cup brown sugar, one cup New Orleans molasses, three eggs, three even teaspoons soda, two small teaspoons ginger. Stir butter and sugar together; then add the other ingredients, with flour enough to make a soft dough. Roll thick, cut, and bake in a quick oven.

Mrs. George F. Hurd.