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Solem, Oregon, Thursday, December 10, 1953
Local Markets Are Ready for You in the Pre-Holiday Time
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:It9s Christmas' Cookie Baking" Time
By ZOLA VINCENT
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t Cookie biking time!
So much fua for the family!
The children of the family will
enjoy helping with the baking
and will have good ideas ior
the packaging of sweetstuffs
lor good neighbor, ior favorite
aunts and cousins and others
appreciative of home baking.
Thoughtful, handsome gifts
at budget prices are yours in
ways like these: Cookies like
the Chocolate Bars in the mail
inc box nictured are designed
to travel well because they pack
snugly. All kinds of inexpen
sive toys like the drum and
wheelbarrow make perfect
gift holders for cookies and
and candies. A visit to the loeal
dime-to-a-dollar store will give
you many good ideas. These are
best for local delivery for ob
vious reasons. Cellophane lined
of semi-sweet chocolate because
they melt and blend quickly.
Chocolate Ban
2 packages (2 cups); semi
sweet chocolate morsels
1i cup shortening
1 cup sugar
4 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 cup sifted all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
Vi teaspoon salt
' H cup pecan halves
1, cup chopped nuts
In top of double boiler, tut
semi-sweet chocolate morsels
and shortening. Heat over hot
water until melted and mix un
til smooth. Remove from heat
Add sugar; mix thoroughly.
Add eggs, one at a time, beat
ing well after each addition.
Stir in vanilla. Sift together
flour, baking powder and salt:
add to chocolate mixture and
mix until blended. Turn into a
mately 3'ixl inch. Makes 60
bars.
Here the chocolate morsels
are used without melting .and
retain their shape during bak
ing; a popular idea with many
sweet-tooths.
Chocolate Crunch Cookies
'j cup butter or margarine
8 tablespoons sugar
6 tablespoons brown sugar
1 egg
m cups sifted all-purpose
flour
i teaspoon baking soda
'i teaspoon salt
Few drops hot water
ii cup chopped nuts -
1 package (1 cup) semt-sweet
chocolate morsels
'i teaspoon vanilla
Cream butter, add sugar
gradually, blending together
12 minutes. Makes 50 cookies.
Christmas J ambles
Here we work ltf cups fine
ly diced mixed candied fruits
into the dough for colorful,
flavorful effect. For tree dec
orations, make a small hole in
cookies with tip of toothpick
before baking; insert string
when cool. Distinctive ginger
flavor. Cream H cup soft
shortening and Vi cup brown
sugar. Add 2 eg$s and V cup
unsulphured molasses and beat
with rotary beater until smooth.
Sift dry ingredients together
and work into shortening mix
ture. Work In m cups finely
diced mixed candied fruits into
dough. Chill one hour. Work
with half the dough at a time.
Drop by spoonsful onto greased
cookie sheets and bake. Per-
with tissue, bringing the edges ; greased 10 x 19 I x 1 inch
of the paper together at the top ; pan. Place (plentiful) pecan
of the toy packaging is the only I halves in rows on top of one
satisfactory wrapping we've half batter. Sprinkle chopped
been able to achieve. Ribbons ' nuts over remaining half. Bake
tie the corners that flare. . in a moderate oven. 375 de
Christmas time and all the grees, 20 to 25 minutes. When
time, chocolate continues the
favorite flavor of the entire
family. So some chocolate goo
dies are a foregone conclusion.
Here- we use the small morsels
cool, cut into bars approxi-
tricot
j Nector for
Party Punch
Looking for a party punch
o -serve both yound and old?
"Frosty Apricot .Glacier" is
tha answer. Similar to an
eggncg. it has a base of apri
cot whole frm nectar and
whipped cream. It's a health
ful drink for the children, yet
it's colorful and flavorful
enough to please one and all
Top each luscious glassful
with a bit of whipped cream
and a few sprinklings of grat
ed lemon rind and nutmeg.
Frosty Apricot Glacier
4 eggs
cup confectioners' sugar
2 tablespoons lemon Juice
1 teaspoon grated lemon
rind
14 cups chilled apricot whole
fruit nectar
1 ' cups whipping CTeam
Grated lemon rind for top
-Nutmeg
I Beat eggs until very thick
and lemon-colored. Gradual
ly teat sugar Into eggs. Add
lemon Juice and lemon rind
Stir nectar Into egg mixture
a small portion at a time.
Place 4 tablespoons whipped
cream into each ol I to I
guasses. Addsufficient nectar
mixture to fill glasses three
quarters full. Blend together
lightly. Top each glass with
remaining cream and sprinkle
with a few gratings of lemon
rind and nutmeg. Serve very
coM.
, Serves 6 to 8.
i
until light and fluffy. Add egg hap? you'd like to shape the
and beat thoroughly. Sift to- other half into small balls,
gether flour, baking soda and : Bake in moderately hot oven,
salt; add to mixture, mixing 1375 degrees 8 to 10 minutes,
well. Add a few drops of hot Watch carefully because these
water and mix until well cookies scorch easily. Cool and
blended. Stir in nuts, chocolate decorate with colored icing
morsels and vanlla. Drop by and colored sugars, if you like,
teaspoon! uls on a greased coo- Roll some of the balls in pow
kie sheet. Bake in moderate dered augar. Makes about 5
oven, 375 degrees, about 10 to I dozen cookies.
Vegetables
Abundant
In Marts
West coast vegetable bins are
overflowing with good things
to eat Potatoes which appear
daily on the menus of many
families are abundant of ex
cellent quality and bargain
priced. So are onions which
are as staple as sugar ana flour
in most families. Plenty of high
quality, crunchy, flavorful cel
ery for the relish tray, for com
bining with apples, nuts and
mayonnaise Is making the ever
popular Waldorf salad, for sea
soning many things and for
creaming as a vegetable for
a change.
Vegetable Buys
Cauliflower is at its snowy
white, firm best. So easy to
fix; simply steam the entire
head or break inio flowerets
and steam. Pour over it melt
ed butter, cream sauce, pimlen
to sauce, cheese sauce and
sprinkle generously with pap
rika and parsley for a holiday
season touch.
Lettuce has been moving to
market In tremendous quantity
as the peak of the season pass
es. Good quality in most mar
kets, unusually heavy heads,
reasonable in price when you
consider the weight.
Other good vegetable buys
include winter squash, cabbage
and most of the "roots." Rea
sonable prices mark cucumbers,
eggplant, peppers, sweet pota
toes and yams.
Fruit buys are loose apples.
grapes, small oranges, cornice
pears, Tangerines are "in for
the holidays. Their season is
short. Children love their
kid-glove skinning. Available
but in light supply are per
simmons, pomegranates, pine
apples,- tome melons.
. Meat altuatton la exception
ally good with beef plentiful
and reasonable. Lamb and
pork "specials" are offered by
most markets. Large turkeys
are quite reasonable.
A Gift of Groceries
Consider groceries as "fam
ily" gifts. Practically any
thing that grows or Is pack'
aged In the food line will be
welcomed. A single Jar or
an assortment of jams, jellies,
pickles, spices, aalad dress
ings, fancy aauces, an individ
ual cheese such as Edam,
Gouda of a "Pineapple" or an
assortment of fancy cheeses.
Fancy cookies and crackers
would please any family.
Fancy canoed meats and
pate's would be most welcome.
Holiday Cookies
Use your favorite rolled -out
sugar cookies. Make stars and
sugar with gold frosting sugar.
Make circles with center re
moved. Trim wreaths with red
cinnamon candies (also angel
iea bits or pistachio nuts) to
look as Christmas wreaths.
Bake center cookies with a red
cinnamon candy and three
green angelica or pistachio
leaves.
"Get-Acquainted" Special
Rich Baked ,
Oysters Good
Western oysters are less ex
pensive but if you Insist on
eastern oysters, you'll find
them - readily available, also,
Did you know that a poppa
oyster doesn't need a mamma
oyster because he is also
mamma? In other words, no
single oyster needs help in
order to become a parent. Also,
before an oyster bed Is plant
ed, it is literally vacuum
cleaned to remove starfish and
oyster drills which are the
natural enemies of oysters. But
let us get on with our de luxe
oyster baking.
Rich Baked Oysters
1 dozen large oysters
1 large onion
8 mushrooms
Vi cup chopped parsley
2 tablespoons butter or
margarine
2 cups white sauce
Parmesan cheese
- Salt and pepper
Chop the onion, rinse the
mushrooms and chop them,
them, then cook both five min
utes In melted butter. Stir in
the white sauce and let boll for
5 minutes. .Add the parsley,
(rinsed, drained and chopped)
Season with salt end pepper.
Lay the oysters In a buttered
baking dish. Cover with the
parsley sauce, sprinkle top with
grated cheese and set the dun
in a hot oven, 400 degrees, till
the top Is browned. Six servings.
for Salem Area
A quick and easy breakfast
dish for a holiday morning is
dry cereal topped with apple
sauce or canned apple slices.
Fruit and main dish combined!
Sprinkle with nutmeg, if you
wish, and serve with brown
sugar and milk or light cream.
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Try Mustard Butter
Mustard butter, nlftily made
with prepared mustard is
fine picker-upper for the com
mon vegetables. Try it on cauli
flower or beets. Julienne car
rots or blended with hot,
shredded red or white cabbage.
To make mustard butter,
soften one cup butter at room
temperature and !4 to H cup
of prepared brown mustard and
if desired, a teaspoon of grated
onion. Stqre In refrigerator un
til needed for glamorizing prac
tically any hot vegetable at any
time.
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