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.
