—Lancaster Farming. Saturday, December 3, 1960 8 For tl Farm Wife and Family Christmas Cookies By: Mrs. Richard C. Spence Nothing helps create a gay holiday mood easier than gaily decorated cookies. Cookies can serve as snacks for guests who drop in during the holiday season, or cookies can be the dessert course for youngsters and adu’ts a 1 ike. Here are some recipes to help add variety to your Christ mas cookie baking. COCOA PEANUT BUTTER MOUNDS (A No Bake Cooky) 1,2 stick (V* cup) butter V 2. cup peanut butter 2 cups sugar i/j cup cocoa 1/2 cup milk 3 cups quick cooking roll ed oats 2 teaspoons vanilla Mix sugar and cocoa m a saucepan Add butter and milk Bring to the boi'mg point, sturing constantly, and boil two minutes. Re move from heat Stir in roll ed oats, then peanut butter and vanilla Mix well. Drop by spoonfuls onto waxed* pa per. Let cool thorough’y be fore serving or storing. Makes four dozen. SPICY HOLIDAY FRUIT COOKIES 1 cup shortening 2 cups packed brown sugar * 2 eggs Vs cup rolled oats 3Vs cups sifted flour 2 teaspoons baking powd er 1 teaspoon cinnamon teaspoon nutmeg Vs teaspoon salt Vs cup milk 1 cup chopped nuts 1 cup chopped dates 1 cup candied mixed fruit BOTTLED GAS INSTALLATION AS LOW AS $6.75 per 100 -Jb. cy'inder Call or Write SUBURBAN ATLANTIC STATES GAS COMPANY P.O. Box 1267, Lancaster TW 8-3371 “Prompt Bail Bond Service” BUHRMAN'S CONVENIENT PARKING LOTS Opposite Brunswick Hotel Opposite Post Office Next to Western Auto Store 115 East King Street Norman A, Buhrman, 228 N. Duke St. “Prompt Bail Bond Service” APPLY NEW JERSEY GREEN SAND and CALPHOS now to all trees and shrubbery, grain and hay fields. Colloidal Phosphate Apply regularly on all stable manure to increase value and mineral content. NEW JERSEY GREEN SAND Did you know that Green Sand has unlimited uses? One of them is on poul try drop pits. It helps solve the moisture prob lem. " CONTACT Brooklawn Farm 118 KREIDER AVENUE LO 9-1580 Or Your Local Dealer Vz cup chopped candied cherries Candied cherries and nuts for decoration. Cream shortening and brown sugar together. Beat in eggs. Add rolled oats. S’ft flour, baking powder, cinna mon, nutmeg, and salt to gether. Add to creamed mix ture alternately with milk. Stir in 1 cup each chopped nuts, dates, and mixed fruit, and Vs cup cherries. Drop rounded teaspoonfuls of bat ter onto an ungreased cooky sheet. Top cookies with halv ed cherries or nuts for dec oration. Bake in a moderate oven (375 degrees) about 10 to 12 minutes or until golden brown. Remove cookies to a cooling rack using wide spa tula. Cool. Store in a closed container. Makes about ten dozen. I OPEN DAILY 9:30 A. M. to 5 P. M.-TUES| }- RICH TWO-LAYER APRICOT SQUARES 1 stick (Vz cup) margarine '% cup dried apricots 1 cup flour y 4 cup granu ated sugar 1 cup packed light brown sugar 2 eggs, well-beaten % cup sifted flour Vi teaspoon baking powd er y 4 teaspoon salt Vz teaspoon vanilla Vi cup chopped pecans Powdered sugar Cover apricots with water 801 l 10 minutes. Drain, cool and chop apricots. Lower Layer: Sift into a bowl 1 cup flour and the granu'ated sugar. Cut in margarine, using a pastry b ender or fork, until the mixture is the consistency of corn meal and smal’ peas. Pack into a 9-inch square pan. Bake in a slow oven (325 degrees) 25 minutes. Top Layer: Add brown sugar to the eggs Stir In % cup flour sifted with baking powder and salt. Add vanil la, nuts, and chopped apri cots. Mix thorough'y. Spread over the baked layer. Return to the sow oven (325 de grees) and bake 35 minuses. (The top will be soft) Cool several hours. Cut into squares Sprink'e with pow dered sugar. Yie'ds sixteen squares. ron ANT FARM PURFOSf MADE THF FARMER'S WAT ik - LANCASTER PRODUCTION CREDIT ASS'N |||)F 411 W. RomtUl* M Lancaster, Pa. T Ph. tana EX 3-3121 • brown maple with brass pulls • red maple with wood knobs sidechair in red or brown maple, reg. 18.50 NOW, 16.75 10% DOWN 18 MOS. TO PAY Na Intaratt If PaUI In I Manthi MOLASSES CHRISTMAS COOKIES 1 cqp molasses Vi cup shortening 1 teaspoon baking soda 2-% cups sifted flour 1 1/2 teaspoons baking pow der 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 *easpoon ginger Heat molasses to boiling, in saucepan deen enough for mixing dough. Remove from heat; stir in shortening and bnkng soda. Sift in flour, baking powder and spices. Mix well: chill. Roll out dough y» inch thick on light ly floured board or pastry cloth. Cut into desired shape. P ace on light y g’•eased bak ing sheet. Bake in moderate oven (350 degrees) 8 to ten minutes. AllSw cookies to cool s ightly before remov ing from baking sheet. Dec orate with Ornamenta 1 Fros ting Makes 36 cookies. ORNAMENTAL FROSTING 2Vz cups confectioners’ sugar 14 teaspoon cream of tar tar 2 egg whites Vi teaspoon vanilla Sift together confectioners’ sugar and cream of tartar; add egg whites and vanil’a Beat with electric beater- un- Home Improvements Katm Storm Doors. Windows, Jalousies. HR*"/ 11 / ~ ■ Awnings, Roofing, Siding, Carpentry, Hoof Coating Screen, Glass- & Storm Door Repair AUTHORIZED RUBEROID APPLICATOR ALL WORK GUARANTEED Ralph F. Kline 405 S. Broad St. Ph. MA 6-7474 - Lititz, PA. Phone Lancaster LO 9-0841 Ephrata RE 3-1224 Columbia MU 4-9429 20 years experience in Home Improvement field Our experience is your safeguard. Why take chances? This Christmas gm CwiimirParklac At Tki Hair Of Stir* #1 .jtKftrtfctyg fluids -its shape. Tint mixture with few drops of food coloring. Cover with damp cloth when not in use. GLAZED MOLASSES BARS Vi cup butter or margar ine Vi cup sugar Vi cup molasses 2 eggs 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour Vi teaspoon sar't Vi teaspoon soda ; 2 teaspoons baking powd er 1 teaspoon cinnamon Vi teaspoon cloves _ V 4 teaspoon mace Vi teaspoon nutmeg Vi teaspoon all spice % cup raisins Vi cup chopped nuts -Cream together butter and 3; sugar until light and fluffy Add molasses and eggs; beat® wel'. Sift together flour, salt,?’ soda, baking powder, spaces; stir in raisins andt* nuts. Add flour mixture to J mo’asses mixture; b end« well Spread in greased 12 x; 8-inch baking pan Bake in' moderate oven (350 degrees) 30 minutes. Glaze while j warm. Cool; cut into 2-inch : squares. Makes 24 bars. i Order Now Buy a desk this y student’s' This Christmas let gift that Other desks in oak, red J. B. V; Fni Glaze W. King and
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