alf cups brown sugar, one cup butter, one half
teaspoon soda, three eggs, pinch of salt, nutmeg, one and one half cups
chopped raisins or dates, one and one half cups chopped nuts, three and
one half cups flour, one teaspoonful of cream of tartar. Drop these in
small, stiff, rough cakes on greased tins and bake brown. For chocolate
hermits, add one half cup of grated Bakers chocolate before baking or
shave the chocolate and melt it in a little hot water. Cocoa may be
substituted for chocolate.--Contributed.

FATTIGMAND. (Scandinavian).--Three well beaten eggs, three tablespoons
of sugar, three teaspoons of cream, add cardamom seeds to flavor and
one teaspoon of brandy. Stir well together, add flour to roll soft,
roll, cut in fancy strips or small cookies and fry in hot lard like
crullers.--Contributed.

BERLINER KRARZE. (Scandinavian). Four raw egg yolks, three hard boiled
egg yolks (grated), one cup sugar, one cup butter, three and one half
cups of flour. Flavor with one tablespoon of brandy or with any
favorite extract. Roll thin, cut, dip cookies into beaten whites of
eggs, then into rolled loaf sugar and bake or finely chopped nuts and
cinnamon may be sprinkled on them just before baking.--Contributed.

"S" FINGERS. (Scandinavian).--One cup sugar, one half cup butter, two
eggs, four tablespoons of milk, two teaspoons of baking powder. Flour
to roll stiff and flavoring. Roll thin, cut into letter "S" fingers and
bake in greased pans.

JUMBLES.--One cup sugar, one cup molasses, three eggs, one cup sour
cream mixed with two level teaspoons of soda. Add four cups flour, one
half teaspoon ginger, one fourth teaspoon cloves and a little salt.
Drop in small cakes on greased pans and bake in moderate
oven.--Contributed.

PUFF BALLS.--Three eggs, one cup sugar, four cups of flour, two
teaspoons melted butter, one and one half cups sweet milk, two
teaspoons baking powder. Flavor, mix and drop in small balls into deep,
smoking hot fat. Drain and roll in powdered sugar.--Wahpeton Cook Book.

HERMITS.--Two eggs, one and one half cups brown sugar, one cup butter
and lard mixed, two thirds cup sour milk, one teaspoon of soda, one
teaspoon cinnamon, one teaspoon vanilla, one half teaspoon cloves, one
cup chopped raisins, one cup chopped nuts, about three cups of flour.
Drop dough on buttered pans with spoon. Bake.--Contributed.

Doughnuts

"Cook says it's awful 'scouragin' to bake and fret and fuss,
An' w'en she