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Show Christmas Dainties. Among the dainty cakes to be made a few days or a week before Christmas for the late, evening refreshments, and tarts and the old-fashioned ginger snaps stand at the head. To have these cakes perfect they must be rolled as thin as possible. Serve with hot lemonade, hot milk, fruit punch or hot water. ' . '. ; ' Ginger Snaps. Rub half a pound of butter thoroughly into two "pounds of flour, then add half a pound of sugar, a tablespoonful of ginger and a dash of cayenne; mix well, and moisten with a pint of molasses. Knead and roll out very thin, cut with a small round cutter, and bake in a moderate oven until a light brown. Sand Tarts. Beat one pound of granulated gran-ulated sugar and half a pound of butter but-ter together; add the yolks of three eggs beaten to a cream, then the whites of two eggs, well beaten; mix. all well together, and add enough flour to make a stiff paste. Roll out on a baking board, cut with a round cutter, and bake in a moderate oven until a light brown. Mrs. Rorer in La4ies' Home Journal. |