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THINGS MOTHER USED TO MAKE
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Cream together the butter and sugar. Add the well-beaten eggs, then the milk. Beat together. Put soda and cream of tartar into the flour, dry. Stir all together with the flavoring. This will make two small loaves.

Old-time Gingersnaps

1 Cupful of Molasses 1 Teaspoonful of Soda
½ Cupful of Butter or 1 Teaspoonful of Ginger
Lard

Boil the molasses five minutes. Remove from the fire, and add soda, butter and ginger. When cooled a little, stir in the flour until thick enough to roll, then roll thin as a postage-stamp. Cut with a cooky-cutter, and bake in a hot oven, being careful not to burn. Shut in a tin pail. These will keep for a long time.

Gold Cake

1 Cupful of Sugar ½ Teaspoonful of Cream
½ Cupful of Butter of Tartar
Yolks of 4 Eggs ¼ Teaspoonful of Soda
Whites of 1 Egg 1¾ Cupfuls of Flour
½ Cupful of Milk Flavoring

Cream butter and sugar together. Add the well-beaten eggs, milk, flavoring and flour into which the cream of tartar and soda have been stirred. Bake thirty minutes in a moderate oven.