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7/8 c. butter
2 c. brown sugar
3 eggs
1 c. sour milk
1 t. baking soda
1 t. allspice
1 t. cloves
2 t. cinnamon
2 t. baking powder
3 c. flour
1 c. chopped walnut meats
1 c. chopped raisins

Cream butter and sugar; add well-beaten eggs. Alternately add the sour milk in which soda has been dissolved and the other dry ingredients which have been sifted together. Then add floured raisins and walnut meats.

Drop from a teaspoon on greased or floured tin. Allow for spreading.

Bake in moderate oven (375*F) 20 minutes.

1 c. soft butter
3/4 c. sugar
2 t. vanilla
2 t. rum flavoring
1 egg
3 c. sifted flour
1/4 t. salt
1 t. nutmeg

Cream butter, sugar, and flavorings. Blend in egg.

Sift flour, nutmeg, and salt; add to butter mixture and mix well. Shape pieces of dough on sugared board into long rolls 1/2″ in diameter. Cut in 3″ lengths.

Bake at 350*F for 12-15 minutes. Cool.

Spread frosting on cookies; mark with tines of fork to resemble bark. Sprinkle lightly with nutmeg.

1 T. butter
1-1/2 c. brown sugar, packed
2 eggs
2 T. molasses
2 c. sifted flour
1/2 t. salt
1/2 t. baking soda
1 t. cinnamon
1 t. cloves
1/4 t. nutmeg
3 T. hot water
1/3 c. chopped nuts
1/4 c. chopped raisins
1 9-oz. box mincemeat, broken up with fork

Mix first 4 ingredients well. Add sifted dry ingredients and water; mix until smooth. Add nuts, raisins, and mincemeat. Spread thin in 2 greased 9″-x- 13″ pans.

Bake in hot oven (400*F ) for 12-15 minutes. Spread with frosting while warm and sprinkle with chopped nuts. Can be frozen.

1-3/4 c. sugar
1/2 c. white Karo syrup
1/2 c. water

Pour sugar, water and syrup into pan and stir. Place on stove and cook until candy thermometer registers 300*F or hard crack.

Take off heat and stir in 1 t. flavoring and a few drops of food coloring. (For flavors like orange and lemon, use 2 t. flavoring. For stronger flavors like mint and cinnamon, 1 t. is plenty.)

Pour into a heavy iron skillet that has been buttered and placed in refrigerator to cool.

Start cutting right away by lifting edges of candy and snipping off a piece. Roll in powdered sugar and cut with kitchen shears.

Buy oil flavorings at drug store.

anise–blue
spearmint–green
clove–white
orange
orange
lemon–yellow
cinnamon–red