Cream
1/4 cup butter or margarine. Add gradually
1/2 cup sugar and
1 egg, well beaten. Dissolve
1/4 teaspoon soda in
1/4 cup rich sour cream. Add to first mixture alternately with
1 1/4 cups pastry flour sifted with
1/4 teaspoon salt and
2 teaspoons baking powder. Add
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 cup raisins cut in pieces and
1/4 cup nut meats cut in pieces. Drop by spoonfuls on greased tin
sheet, and bake in a moderate oven.

Double the amount of flour may be used, nuts and raisins omitted,
and mixture chilled and rolled out and cut in any desired shape,
before baking.



SOUTH AMERICAN CHOCOLATE

Melt
1/2 pound (1 cake) vanilla sweet chocolate over hot water, add slowly
1 cup strong hot coffee and boil 1 minute. Add to
6 cups scalded milk, beat until a thick froth forms on top, and leave
over hot water 10 minutes. Serve with
Whipped cream sweetened and flavored, or chill and serve in tall
glasses with
Cracked Ice.