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1 teaspoon cloves
1/2 teaspoon soda

Dissolve soda in tablespoon hot water. Flour enough to make a stiff
batter, drop in small cakes with teaspoon and bake in slow oven.

Cocoanut Cookies

1 cup butter
4 eggs
1 lemon--juice and rind
4 cups sugar
4 teaspoons baking powder
1 pound package grated cocoanut

Cream sugar with butter. Add the yolks of the 4 eggs and beat well. Add
juice and rind of lemon. Then flour, into which has been sifted the
baking powder. Sift flour and baking powder twice before adding to
mixture. Use enough flour to make a very stiff batter, add cocoanut, and
last, fold in the whites of the eggs beaten to a stiff froth.

Drop on buttered tins and bake in moderate oven.

PASTRIES, PIES, ETC.

Grape Fruit Pie

First bake a shell as for lemon pie, then make a filling as follows: Mix
one tablespoon of cornstarch in a little cold water, and over this pour
one cupful of boiling water. To this add the juice of two grapefruits,
the grated rind and juice of one orange, the beaten yolks of two eggs,
and the white of one, and a small piece of butter. Put all in the double
boiler and cook until thick, stirring all the time. When done, put in
the shell. Now beat up the white of the second egg with one-half a
cupful of sugar until thick, and spread with a knife over the pie. Put
in the oven and let brown lightly. Serve cold. This makes a delicious
pie.

Spice Pie

The yolks of three eggs, one and one-half cupfuls of sugar, one cupful
of cream, two tablespoons of flour, two-thirds of a cupful of butter,
one teaspoon of spice, cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg.

Mix the flour and sugar together, then cream with the butter. Add the
yolks of the eggs, beating thoroughly. Next add cream and spices. Use
the whites for the frosting.

Cream Pie

1 1/2 cups milk
2 egg yolks
2 tablespoons sugar
a little salt
1 tablespoon butter
Vanilla to taste

Scald milk; beat eggs; add sugar; pour into milk, beating constantly, 1
tablespoon of cornstarch and 1 tablespoon flour (rounded).

Bake crust; beat whites; add 1 teaspoon sugar, cover with cocoanut
browned lightly; now cover with whipped cream and cream nuts.

Pie Crust

One level cup of flour, one-half cup of lard, one-half teaspoon salt,
one-fourth cup ice cold water, one teaspoon baking powder. Mix