_Ingredients._ Flour 3 cups Baking powder 4 teaspoonfuls Salt 1 teaspoonful Sugar 1/4 cup Milk 2 cups Egg 1 Melted butter 2 tablespoonfuls _Method._——Mix dry ingredients. Beat egg and mix with it the milk. Pour liquid ingredients into the dry ingredients and stir altogether until smooth. Add the melted butter and cook the cakes the same as with sour milk griddlecakes. =6. Cookies.=——Cookies may be plain, or rich in butter; crisp and thin, or soft and thick. They may be sweetened with sugar, or molasses, and spiced in various ways. It would be an interesting exercise to tabulate all the possible forms of cookies. _Ingredients._ Butter 1 cup Sugar 1-1/2 cups Eggs 2 Milk 3 tablespoonfuls Flour about 3 cups Baking powder 1 teaspoonful Salt 1-1/2 teaspoonfuls The flavoring may be two teaspoonfuls of vanilla, or lemon essence, one or two tablespoonfuls of ground spice, or caraway seeds. _For baking_, a floured iron sheet or flat pan. Temperature 425° F., or even more. The baking requires from 15 to 20 minutes, depending on the thickness of the cooky. [Illustration: FIG. 49.——Materials and utensils for fancy cookies. _Courtesy of Miss Anna M. Barrows._] The method of mixing is No. 3. Notice that this is a stiff dough. The amount of flour depends somewhat upon the expertness of the cooky maker. The flour used in rolling out must be accounted for, as the expert can manage a softer dough than the novice. Mix the baking powder and salt with one cup of the flour. _Shaping the cookies._——Figure 49 shows you the apparatus. The dough is turned out upon the floured board, gently rolled out to a quarter of an inch, cut and placed in a floured pan; or cut off a small piece, roll in the flour, until it forms a ball, set the ball in the pan, and pat it down to a round. This may seem to take longer, but it is easier, and there is no board to clean afterward. _A plainer cooky_ is made with 1/2 cup butter, and 1/2 cup water or milk, with somewhat more flour. =7. Butter cake.=——A foundation recipe. Learn to make one cake well, and vary it by changing the forms and flavors. _Ingredients._ Butter 1/3 cup Sugar 1 cup Eggs 2 Milk 2/3 cup Flour 1-3/4 cup Baking powder 2-1/2 teaspoonfuls Salt 1/4 teaspoonful