B4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 5,1981 Ladies Have You Heard? By Doris Thomas Lancaster Extension Home Economist GIFTS FROM YOUR KITCHEN Cook up some Christmas gifts this year. They are perfect for family gifts or for friends who have everything. For a lasting gift, pa<ff homemade goodies of your favorite recipes in an attractive container that can be used long after the food is gone. Be sure to add a copy of the recipe on a Christmas greeting or enclosure. Here are a few kitchen gift suggestions. Make a Christmas fruit bread and decorate it with candied chemes and chopped nuts. Pack the bread in a pan lined with a non-stick finish or on a small bread board. Bake a variety of your favorite Christmas cookies. Place them m a cookie jar or arrange them at tractively on a cookie sheet for a two-m-one gift. Remember neighbors and fnends with a delicious cake for the holidays. Pack the cake in a gaily decorated plastic cake earner. Or if it is a square or oblong cake, select an aluminum Stonehedge home (Continued from Page B 2) greenery and articles from the outdoors such as pine cones and nuts. A collection of handmade decorative articles will be in corporated into the natural greenery as well. The hvmgroom fireplace, one of two working fireplaces, will hold on its mantel a number of crackle tile items Trudy made from figures taken from giftwrap a number of years ago. They include a drummer boy, a tot hanging her stocking and other little ones preparing for Christ mas. Above the mantel is displayed a large pmecone wreath. On a small table against the wall in the adjoining diningroom is a display including a fox hunter figurine and an antique copper hunting horn amid a nest of fresh cut pine greens. Chi the second floor are three bedrooms to be opened during the tour. The master suite once con sisted of two bedrooms each with its own fireplace and a door joining the two rooms. The room to the south is daughter Patti Jo’s. Her room contains a high-posted single bed, patchwork quilt, painting over the mantel and finished, random width wood floor. While staying with her parents. Ox pan with a sliding cover that will protect the cake. For a family gift, fill a decorative tray or basket with an assortment of holiday treats. These could include jams or jellies, pickles or relishes, candy, cookies, a coffee ring, fruit bread. Let your own imagination guide you. If you are planning to mail gift cookies to friends or relatives, make sure the contents arrive in the form of cookies and not crumbs. Select cookies that are good travelers and keepers. These include moist bars and squares, •and soft drop cookies such as mincemeat, applesauce-nut and oatmeal-fruit to mention a few. Why not let your own kitchen be the place where you create unique personal gifts this Christmas? LAUNDER NATURAL FABRICS Get your old ironing board out of storage because ironing is back in style. Ironing is in because cotton, hne, and silk are in. Durable press finishes, tumble drying and steam irons all help, bbt proper laundering can make the difference between a tedious or Kathleen has furnished the nor thwest bedroom with blue-gray wood trim, white painted walls, quilted bed covers, table cover and a dramatic display of dark-blue and white china, a wedding present given to her parents. Kathleen also sewed curtains for the two west windows in that bedroom to match the blue and white decor. The one-time servants’ quarter, now Herb and Trudy’s bedroom, is decorated in a rose and blue theme with off-white walls making a background to set off the blue woodwork, rose and blue patch quilt and drapes repeating the print in the quilt. The future plans for the restoration include refimshmg another bedroom floor and un covering the downstairs floors. Hie Marshs call their home Stonehedge after the fact that a vein of stone continuing from a large quarry to the south of them runs through then: property and a hedge once bordered the lane. Eight years ago the Marshs probably would not have believed they would be opening their home to a tour. They moved to make a home for the family, not to make a showplace. a simple ironing job. Wash and dry clothing according to the garments’'care label, use the correct water temperature and wash cycle. The “permanent press” cycle will help prevent wrinkles by cooling the wash water and using a low spin speed. Use your automatic dryer correctly, too. Dry lightweight and heavy items separately. Set the dryer for the correct temperature and tune, then don’t overload it. When the cycle is completed, remove items from the dryer promptly. Smooth the seams, collars, cuffs, hems and zippers as you hang your clothes. Light wrinkles vyill usually hang out or require only a touch-up. 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They space, tends to be attracted to it tor also need space to store playthings P „ . , . when they aren’t being used. Play space can usually be found : in an attic, basement or a corner of wrinkles are hot set iko the clothes » den, dining room or living rooni. and they will dry smoother. When lounger children prefer to play you hang the clothes, smooth out near their parents or where family wrinkled areas as you would when activities are centered. Even using the dryer. The weight of the though it may be limited, provide water dripping out will also help space tor toy storage. Open or V f . m 6S shelf units to store toys seem to be the dryer, remove f ore a PP* aUn H to a child than a g2^*Sl 1 3& , 35f Store iSr^iSasi’astoe them m a plastic bag until ironing -Tgarments are linked, they oradd t 0 toys at other times of the may need to be dampened before yea f’ g } ve some thought to where ironing. 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