• Cream together sugar, shortening, and eggs.
• Mix in remaining ingredients, combining thoroughly.
• Roll out and cut in desired shapes.
• Sprinkle tops with granulated sugar.
• Bake on greased cookie sheets at 350° for 8–10 minutes.

• Cream together the sugar, shortening, eggs, milk, and vanilla.
• Stir dry ingredients together.
• Combine dry ingredients with creamed mixture, blending thoroughly.
• Drop by teaspoonsful onto greased cookie sheets.
• Bake at 350° for 12–15 minutes.

• Cream shortening and sugar.
• Add molasses and buttermilk.
• Stir in flour and baking soda.
• Drop in large dollops from teaspoon onto cookie sheet.
• Bake at 375° for 8–10 minutes.
• Variation:
• Cookies may be glazed by brushing tops with egg yolks before baking.
• Add 1 tsp.
• ginger and 1 tsp.
• cinnamon with flour and sugar.

• Cream the sugar and lard.
• Add the sour cream and eggs and beat well.
• Stir in the remaining ingredients and mix well.
• Drop by teaspoonsful onto greased cookie sheets.
• Bake at 325° for 8–10 minutes.

• Cream together the sugar, shortening, and eggs.
• Mix baking soda, cream of tartar, and sour cream together.
• Add alternately with flour to the creamed mixture.
• Refrigerate overnight or for several hours.
• Roll out dough and cut in desired shapes.
• Bake at 400° for 8–10 minutes.

• Cream together shortening, sugar, and eggs.
• Mix in baking soda and powder, salt and vanilla.
• Add milk and flour alternately to creamed mixture.
• Bake at 350° for 10–12 minutes.
• Makes 10–11 dozen cookies

Icing

• Mix all ingredients together for 1 minutes.
• Spread on cooled cookies, or first divide into several parts and add different food colors to each part, to give variety.

• Cream together the brown sugar, shortening, and eggs.
• Stir soda into sour milk
• Sift baking powder, salt, and flour together.
• Add milk and dry ingredients alternately to creamed mixture.
• Drop by teaspoonsful onto greased cookie sheets.
• Bake at 350° for 7–8 minutes.

• Cream sugar and shortening.
• Add eggs and beat well.
• Add milk, dry ingredients, and vanilla and mix thoroughly.
• Drop by teaspoonsful onto greased cookie sheet.
• Bake at 375° for 8–10 minutes.

• Melt butter in saucepan.
• Add brown sugar and cook over low heat two minutes, stirring constantly.
• Add milk and continue stirring until mixture comes to a boil.
• Remove from heat and cool.
• Add confectioner’s sugar until frosting reaches spreading consistency.

• Mix together egg whites, sugar, water, and corn syrup in top section of double boiler.
• Place over rapidly boiling water and beat continuously with a rotary beater for 7 minutes.
• Remove from heat.
• Stir in vanilla and continue beating until icing is able to be spread.