Molasses Cookies ( Good. )

1 cup butter.

2 cups molasses.

1 teaspoonful cloves.

1 tablespoonful ginger.

Sufficient flour to make soft dough. Mould with the hands into small cakes, and bake in a steady rather than quick oven, as they are apt to burn.

Ginger-Snaps. (No. 1.)

1 cup butter.

1 cup molasses.

1 cup sugar.

¾ cup sweet milk.

1 teaspoonful saleratus.

2 teaspoonfuls ginger.

Flour for tolerably stiff dough.