Show SOME GOOD RECIPES FOR BAKING COOKIES Children Need Something When They Get Home From From School Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture The old-fashioned old cookie Jar has a place In every home where there are rowing children for the custom of giving the children milk and a few CO cookies In the middle of the afternoon when they get home from school Is based on n a n real n need ed of of their ac active ve young nung bo bodies Jes Growing children especially especially especially es es- es- es those between between- twelve welve and ami twenty nty are using up so much energy that an extra little meal of this ind kind l J Is necessary to supply a n s sufficient numb number r if at calories This Is not the same as as the tabooed habit of eating between meals It It-Is It Is a meal In itself with Ith a R Justifiable place In the days day's menu Particularly in the c case se of those who carr carry a n sandwich lunch is that after after- school chool meal valuable If there Is noway no noway noway way for tor the child hild to have a a. hot hotl dish at nt I Some Good Simple Cookies noon th the milk may be heated or served t In the form of cocoa Wholesome cookies S to go go with It may be made h by any uny of the recipes below furnished by hy bythe hythe bythe the United States Department of Agriculture Agil- Agil culture I I- I Plain Rolled Roiled Cookies About GO CO Cakes 1 cupful sugar sus-at 3 cupfuls sifted Vi cupful shorten- shorten flour flourIng flourIng Ing 2 tea teaspoon s p 0 0 n fuls S egg baking powder 1 I teaspoonful flavoring fla fla- Yi teaspoonful salt silt e extract About 1 Vi cupful milk Cream together the tle sugar and shortening short short- cuing ening add mid to this the well-beaten well e ei egg p the flavoring extract ana ann the flour sifted sifted sift sift- ed together with the salt and baking powder Add dd sufficient um milk or water wa wn- ter to form torm a n dough Just stiff stitT enough to roll on the board without sticking Roll noli thin from one-eighth one to one I ter Inch In thickness and cut Into dt desired desired de- de sired shape si Bake Bake in In a rather lather hot oven until delicately ly browned about ten ten to twelve minutes s Peanut Cookies 2 cupfuls sifted t teaspoon f e asp a s p o 0 o 0 n fill flour soda cupful 1 cupful roasted shortening peanut m in meats e e a t s 8 c cupful pf I b blanched 1 a n h c e d and y cupful sugar sugar- crushed 1 1 egg g. ai teaspoonful salt Milk MUle sufficient to ta 2 teaspoonfuls teaspoonful bak- bak mix Ing powder Mix roll and bake as directed fot foi cornmeal cornmeal cookies If If desired add milk enough to make malte a n softer dough and dr drop p by t teaspoonfuls onto the greased baking s sheet shet e Bake these drop cookies more mor slowly and a little longer than the rol rolled ed cookies Oatmeal al Drop Cakes A About out 50 Cak Cakes s l cupful 1 I cupful sifted Vi cupful brown flour flaur sugar Vt teaspoonful salt 34 12 cupful shortening 2 t tea teaspoonfuls e a s a p o 0 o 0 1 egg baking 2 cupfuls rolled cupful seeded oats raisins r 4 au wc unu J OJ teaspoonfuls onto a greased baking sheet one Inch apart Bake Bale In a n moderate moderate mod mod- erate oven for about fifteen minutes or until delicately browned |