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HOLIDAY COOKY BAKING
CHRISTMAS
ALMOND BALLS
1% stick (% cup) butter or
margarine
V* cup powdered sugar
7t cups sifted flour
1 cup ground almonds
Va teaspoon salt
X teaspoon vanilla
Glazed whole cherries
Cream butter until light and
fluffy. Blend in Vt cup powder
ed sugar. Add flour, almonds,
salt, and vanilla. Stir until
dough is thoroughly blended.
Use a teaspoon of dough to roll
into a ball around a cherry.
Bake in a slow oven (325 de
grees) 20 minutes. When
slightly cool, roll in powder
ed sugar. Makes 40 cookies.
APRICOT-DATE SQUARES
1% sticks (% cup) margarine
1 cup packed brown sugar
2 cups sifted flour
1 teaspoon soda
2 cups rolled oats
1 teaspoon vanilla
Filling:
% cup chopped pitted dates
42 ounce package dried apri
cots, about 2 cups cooked
pulp
% cup packed brown sugar
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Blend together margarine
and sugar. Cream until light
and fluffy. Mix remaining in
gredients together and com
bine with margarine-sugar mix
ture. Put a little more than
half of the mixture in a 13x9
inch pan. Press firmly into
place.
For filling, cook dates, apri
cot pulp and sugar together un
til thick. Spread fruit mixture
over dough. Add remainder of
crumbs over top and press
down lightly. Bake in moderate
oven (350 degrees) for 30
minutes. Cut into squares when
cool. Makes 24 squares.
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COOKIES
4 cups sifted flour
2 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
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teaspoon salt
teaspoon baking soda
cup shortening
cups firmly packed brown
sugar
eggs
to 3 lemons
% cup chopped walnuts
Vt cup chopped dates
Sift together flour, baking
powder, cinnamon, salt and
soda. Cream together shorten
ing and sugar until light. Add
eggs, one at a time, beating
well after each addition. Grate
the peel from one lemon; set
aside. Juice the lemons to
yield Va cup fresh juice. Add
the dry ingredients to the
creamed mixture alternately
with the lemon juice, mixing
until well blended. Stir in
grated peel, wanluts and dates.
Divide dough in half; place
each half on a piece of wax
ed paper and shape into a roll
about 13-inches long. Chill sev
eral hours in refrigerator un
til firm, or place in freezer for
about one hom* until firm, but
not frozen. With a sharp knife,
cut slices thick;
place on a lightly greased
cookie sheet. Bake at 375 de
grees for 10 minutes, or until
lightly browned. Remove from
sheet and cool on wire rack.
Makes 7% dozen cookies.
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1 stack-pack crackers with
unsalted tops, finely rolled
% cup finely chopped wal-
nuts or pecans
% ' cup flaked coconut
6 egg whites, room tempera-*
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teaspoon salt ’
VA cups fine granulated sugar
V* teaspoon red food coloring,
optional
18 candied red cherries, drain
ed and halved
Combine first three ingre
dients. Beat egg whites and
salt until soft peaks form.
Gradually beat in sugar. Beat
until stiff and glossy, but- not
dry. Blend in food coloring.
Fold in dry ingredients. Cover
baking sheets with thick brown
paper. Drop dough by spoon
fuls, 1-inch apart. Top with
cherry half. Bake in a preheat
ed moderate oven (350 de
grees) 20 minutes or until
faintly colored. Cool 5 minutes
before removing to rack. Cool;
then store in an air-tight-tin.
Makes about 3 dozen cookies.
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DATE FINGERS
1 tablespoon vinegar
% cup milk
VA cups sifted all-purpose
flour
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it teaspoon baking soda
M teaspoon ‘salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground 'nutmeg *
1 cup butter or “inargarinff.
softened
1 cup sugar
2 eggs, room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 (8-ounce) package chopped
dates
% cup chopped walnuts
2 tablespoons water
3 drops green food coloring
1 (3Vt ounce) package flak-
ed coconut
3% cups sifted confectioner!*
sugar
3 to 4 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Stir vinegar into milk; "let
stand. Sift' together next five
ingredients. Cream cup but
ter or margarine and sugar.
Add eggs, one at a time, beat
ing well after each addition..
Add milk and dry ingredients
alternately, beginning and end
ing with dry ingredients Blend
in vanilla; stir in chopped
dates and chopped nuts. Spread
in a greased and floured 10 x
15 inch jelly roll pan. Bake«n
a preheated moderate oven
(350 degrees) 20 to 25 minutes
or until done. Cool in- pan.
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