38-UnoMttf Farwtat, Saturday, Otc 20.1975
Christmas treats from the country kitchen
Many a farm wife will be “shoosing” their menfolk
from country kitchen* all over the state this weekend, in
hopes of accomplishing the last minute holiday baking.
The rich aroma of cookies, candles and holiday breads
will be floating through the house and offering quite a
temptation to children as well as adults.
If you haven’t quite decided yet Just what to bake, then
we’ve included some suggestions for cookies and other
holiday goodies to try for this year.
Happy Baking and Happy Holiday!
Banana Bread
Vi cup butter
Vi cup sugar
2 eggs
IVi cup mashed bananas
Vi cup chopped-walnuts
2 cups all purpose floor
Vi teaspoon baking powder
Vi teaspoon baking soda
Vi teaspoon salt
Cream batter in a mixing bowl, gradually add sugar and
beat until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time.
Blend in bananas and nuts. Mix flour baking powder,
baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture. Turn into
loaf pan and bake at 350 degrees for 45-50 minutes.
Cream Cheese Cookies
1 * 3-ounce package of cream cheese, softened
Ms cup batter
Vi cup sugar
2 tablespoons grated orange rind
2 tablespoons orange juice
1 cup flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
V* teaspoon salt
Chill one hour. Form into small balls and roll in Vz cup
chopped nuts. Bake at 350 degrees for 12 minutes.
Mrs. Burnard Cline
Elkton, MD
Chocolate Chip Chews
% cup shortening
1 cup brown sugar
% cup white sugar
3 eggs - beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon salt
2% cups flour
Vt teaspoon soda
Vz teaspoon baking powder
1 cup nut meats
1 cup chocolate chips
Cream shortening and sugars. Add eggs and vanilla.
Sift diy ingredients and add to mixture.- Add nuts and
chips.
CaunteyjCorner
Recalling a trip to Christmas Tree Hill
By Melissa Piper
Living on a farm, we were lucky enough to have a
choice of many a different Christmas tree. Dad had
planted a number of seedlings on a hillside
overlooking the farm, after first buying the land,
and by the time all five of us children had arrived,
the trees were ready for selection.
About two weeks before Christmas, Dad would
take one of us along on the trip to the ‘‘Christmas
Tree Hill" to select the tree that would take priority
in our living room corner.
One quiet Sunday afternoon, I went with Dad on
hts annual hike and helped him tag a tali' thu,’
scotch pine which a few days later would come
down to the house.
The snow still lay thick on the fields and road that
afternoon and a light fluttering of snowflakes
coated my jacket as 1 walked toward the barn.
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Spread in a cookie pan and bake at 350 degrees for 15-20
minute*. Cut in ban.
IV4 pounds sugar
1 pound batter
8 cups flour
4 eggs, beaten
Mix sugar and batter thoroughly. Add eggs. Work in
flour and refrigerate overnight Slice or roll out Bake at
390 degrees 8 minutes.
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Christmas Salad
1 - 3-ounce package lemon flavored gelatin
I envelope unflavored gelatin
V* cup cold water
1 - 1-pound can fruit cocktail
Vi cup syrup from fruit
' 1 pint creamed cottage cheese
1 - 3-ounce package cherry gelatir
lightly oil a 9 x 5 x 3 inch pan. Prepare lemon gelatine
according to directions. Pour into pan. Chill and cover
with cottage cheese. Combine drained fruit with syrup,
cold water and unflavored gelatine. Code until thickened.
Pour on top of creamed cheese mixture. Prepare cherry
gelatine rad cover the other mixture. Chill well Unmold
rad serve on lettuce.
one-third cup shortening
one-third cup sugar "w"
1 egg >
two-thirds cup honey ;
1 teaspoon lemon flavoring m
2% cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon salt
Mix shortening, sugar, egg, honey and flavoring
thoroughly. Measure flour and stir together with soda,
and salt Blend with other ingredients. Chill dough. Roll
out to inch thick. Bake at 375 degrees for 10-12 minutes.
Mabel Reiff
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1% cups sifted flour u
1 teaspoon soda
Vz teaspoon salt
Sunday afternoons had always been a time to take
Kelly, my dog,and Dusty, my pony, for a walk and
even though the wind was making the air frosty, 1
knew the animals needed the exercise.
Kelly frolicked around my feet, after being set
free of her leash, and ran straight toward the barn
waiting for me to halter Dusty and be off.
While I slipped Dusty’s halter over his thick fluffy
mane, Kelly ran to the pig pens yipping loudly at the
sows and their new pigs. But when she realized we
were ready to go she ran past us in a flurry of black
fur.
Dad was waiting at the top of the hill and I knew
that our hike that day would probably take us to
the "Christmas Tree Hill.”
The only way we could reach the trees was to
walk near the “Strawberry Patch", up the hill by
the orchard, through the hedge rows and up the
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Sand Tart Cookies
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Merry Christmas
Cookies
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Peanut Blossoms
Edna Molt
Kutztown, PA
Amy Chandler
Wixhockin,PA
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon soda
IV* teaspoons ginger
1 teaspoon cinnamon
Vi teaspoon ground doves
Vt teaspoon salt
two-thirds cup lard
1 cup sugar
1 egg
V* cup molasses
2 tablespoons water
' - one-third cup sugar
Sift together flour, soda, ginger, cinnamon, doves
salt Creamlard and 1 cup sugar. Add egg, molasses
water; beat thoroughly. Stir sifted dry ingredients
creamed mixture, mixing well. Shape dough into i
about the size of a small walnut and roll in one-third
sugar. Place on cooky sheet about 2 indies apart. Bi
moderate oven (305 degrees F.) 12 to 15 minutes. Yiei
dozen cookies.
Lena Hampshire
Noxton, PA
V* cup sugar
Vt cup finnly packed brown sugar
Vt cup shortening
Vt cup peanut butter
1 egg
2 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
chocolate kisses candies
/Cream shortening and peanut butter together
sugar and continue to beat. Add eggs and vanilla and
until fluffy. Sift flour. Measure and add salt and
Gradually add sifted dry ingredients to creamed'
Shape dough into India. Roll balls in sugar, pia,
ungreased cookie sheets. Bake at 375 degrees for
minutes. Top each cookie immediately with candy
Press down firmly so cookie cracks.
two-thirds cup lard
Vt cup light brown sugar, firmly packed
1 egg
1 egg yolk
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups flour
% teaspoon salt
1 egg white
1% cups chopped pecans -
one-third to % cup raspberry or strawberry jam
Cream together lard and brown sugar. Add well bi
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steep ridge near the cornfields. Although it w<
that far away, it took a little extra time to pii
path that Dusty could tred without slippmf
packed snow.
By the time we had reached the hill, we
puffing quietly dnd ready for a rest. Dusty P<
anxiously at the ground and nibbled the ?
under the snow while Kelly chased birds froi
trees.
Dad and I looked over the scene below us
resembled a “Currier and Ives" postcard cotni
with snow dotting the buildings and houses
Many farms could be viewed from the hill
Dad could tell a story about "each one
perhaps the day they built tbeir new barn or r
a shed.
But even though the valley below was P 1
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Samuel Stoll
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Ginger Crisps
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