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CAKES, COOKIES AND CONFECTIONS

Cloisters
  • ½ c. Eagle brand condensed milk
  • Cocoanut
  • 1 tsp. vanilla

Add all the cocoanut the milk will hold. Drop by teaspoon to slightly greased baking sheet. Bake to light brown. These burn easily.

Hermits
  • 1½ c. brown sugar
  • 1 c. fat
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 c. chopped raisins
  • 1 c. chopped nuts
  • ¼ tsp. nutmeg
  • 1½ tsp. cinnamon
  • ¼ tsp. cloves
  • ½ tsp. soda in
  • ½ c. hot water
  • ¾ tsp. salt
  • 3 c. flour

Mix as butter cake. Drop in small spoonfuls on greased tin. Bake in moderate oven.

Brownies
  • 1 c. sugar
  • 2 tsp. baking powder
  • 1¼ c. flour
  • ¼ tsp. salt
  • 2 eggs
  • 3 tbsp. milk
  • 2 sq. chocolate (melted)
  • 4 tsp. fat (melted)
  • 1 cup nuts (chopped)
  • 1 tsp. vanilla

Pour into square greased pan and bake 10 to 15 minutes. Cut at once into strips one inch by three inches. Makes about sixty.

Walnut Squares
  • 1 egg, beaten creamy
  • 1 c. light brown sugar
  • ⅛ tsp. soda
  • ⅓ tsp. salt
  • 5 tbsp. flour
  • 1 c. chopped walnuts

Stir sugar into beaten egg. Sift flour, soda and salt and mix with the nuts. Stir second mixture into first. Spread on a greased pan a layer one-

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