Cream together brown sugar, lard or butter and eggs. Stir baking soda into sour milk. Sift baking powder, salt and flour together. Add milk and dry ingredients alternately to the creamed mixture. Drop ...

3 cups brown sugar1 cup lard or butter, softened2 eggs2 teaspoons baking soda2 cups sour milk2 teaspoons baking powder5 cups flour, siftedPinch of saltCream together brown sugar, lard or butter, and ...

This week I’ll share recipes I like making around Christmastime. Daughter Elizabeth brought a batch of this dough on Wednesday. It is a delicious cutout cookie that works really great. The children ...

We had a much-needed rain a few nights ago. It was our first rain since we had planted grass more than a week ago. The garden was getting really dry also, so the rain was welcome. To beat the dry ...