COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL • DECEMBER 5, 2018 •
Betty Kaiser’s Cook's Corner:
Pet tips
‘N’ tales
Christmas Cookies for a Crowd
mas Cookie party event. All
the neighbors were happy for
a meet and greet and brought
enough cookies to share and
exchange. And that was the
year I discovered a cookie short
cut — Bar Cookies.
If you’re going to feed a
crowd, cookies baked like cake
and cut into squares are noth-
ing short of magic. You don’t
have to stop and agonize over
perfecting every individual
cookie. You just cut and serve.
I still make a couple of fa-
vorite, tedious cookie recipes:
Russian Tea Cakes and a small
batch of frosted sugar cookies
are a must on the Kaiser menu.
And it wouldn’t be Christmas
without a batch of Fantasy
Fudge. Still, Bar Cookies are a
lifesaver when entertaining at
this busy time of year.
Th e following recipes are
baked and taste tested by dear
friends. Enjoy!
cranberries (8 ounces)
• ½ cup pecans or walnuts,
chopped
Preheat oven to 350Æ F.
Butter a 9x13” Pyrex pan
Using an electric mixer on
medium speed: beat sugar and
eggs until slightly thickened
(about 2 min.).
Beat in melted butter and
almond fl avor. Stir in fl our; add
cranberries and nuts. Bake 30
min. or until toothpick tests
clean.
Topping:
• 1 14-ounce can sweetened
condensed milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 egg
• 1 cup coconut + extra for
topping
Betty Kaiser
• 1 cup pecans, chopped
Crust: In large bowl com-
Once upon a time I loved to
bine cake mix and margarine.
make Christmas cookies. Back
Blend at low speed until well
in the day you could always
combined and crumbly. Press
count on me to bring cookies
evenly into bottom of greased
to the multiple school events,
pan.
church, clubs and other parties
Topping: In small bowl com-
that our family of fi ve attended.
Louise’s Lemon Bars
bine milk, vanilla and egg. Beat
I was busy. I worked outside
Crust:
until smooth. Stir in coconut
of the home, volunteered on
• 2 cups plus 2 tablespoons and pecans. Pour mixture over
multiple levels for youth and
fl our
crust. Sprinkle an additional ¼
civic groups and still had ener-
• 1/2 cup powdered sugar
cup coconut over top.
gy to bake cookies at midnight.
•
1
cup
butter
Bake 30-35 minutes or until
Ah, youth
Filling:
golden brown. Cool completely.
Th at all changed when we
• 4 eggs, slightly beaten
Cut into bars.
semi-retired and moved to Or-
• 2 cups sugar
egon. Now that the kids were
• 6 tablespoons lemon juice
Microwave Fantasy Fudge
grown and lived a thousand
• 1 grated lemon rind
• ¾ cup (1 ½ sticks) butter
miles away, I seldom made
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 3 cups sugar
cookies by the dozen any more.
Topping:
• 1 small can evaporated
In fact, that fi rst year Chuck
Jeannie
Hand’s
•
Powdered
sugar
for
dust-
milk
(2/3 cup) (not sweetened)
made all the cookies at our new
Cranberry Bars
ing
• 1 12-ounce package semi-
business.
• 1 ½ cups sugar
Preheat oven to 350° F.
sweet chocolate chips
We opened a bakery/donut
• 2 large eggs
Lightly spray 9x13 Pyrex
• 1 small jar (7 ounces)
shop and re-modeled a house
•
¾
cup
butter,
melted
and
pan
marshmallow
crème
on six acres. We were busy and
cooled
Crust: Combine 2 cups fl our
• 1 cup nuts, chopped (I use
tired.
• 1 teaspoon almond extract with ½ cup powdered sugar and walnuts)
Still, I wanted to entertain
• 1 ½ cups fl our
mix well with butter. Pat into
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
the neighbors at Christmas.
•
1
½
cup
fresh
or
frozen
prepared
pan
and
bake
for
20
Lightly grease a 13x9 inch
Th us began 20 years of a Christ-
min. Remove from oven.
Pyrex pan.
Filling: In the meantime,
Microwave margarine in
combine eggs, sugar, lemon 4-quart bowl on HIGH for 1
The Cottage Grove Lions Club
will be offering wonderful See’s
juice, lemon rind, baking pow- minute or until melted. Add
products to benefit their sight &
der and 2 tablespoons fl our.
sugar and milk; mix well. Mi-
hearing projects in our community.
Mix until smooth. Pour fi ll- crowave on 5 minutes or until
ing over cooked layer.
mixture be-gins to boil, stirring
Our sales trailer will be located in the Pinnocchio’s Pizza parking
Bake for 25 minutes. Cool. aft er 3 minutes. Continue to
lot on Main Street.
Dust with powdered sugar. If cook 2 more min.
Our hours will be 11:00 A.M. until 5:30 P.M. through
making the day before, you
Mix well; scrape bowl. Mi-
Christmas Eve. NOW ACCEPTING Credit & Debit Cards
may
have
to
repeat
dusting.
Cut
crowave
5 ½ min. more, stir-
Shop early…..stock will be limited!
into squares and serve. (Makes ring aft er 3 min. Microwave
a lot!)
on high 5 1/2 minutes; stirring
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aft er 3 minutes as above. Grad-
of the Cottage Grove Lions Club
Jeannie
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ually stir in chocolate chips
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Cookie Bars
until melted. Add marshmal-
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Heat oven to 350° F.
low, nuts and vanilla. Mix well
Grease 13” x9” pan
and quickly pour into prepared
Crust:
pan. Let cool. To serve, cut into
• 1 package Pillsbury Plus small squares. Makes a lot!
Devil’s Food Cake mix
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By Mary Ellen
“Angel Scribe”
Heavenly Heart gifts and giggle
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ere are three interesting pet stories:
“As the veterinarian released our dog, Sophie, into
Heaven, I held her and whispered, ‘Please send me signs from
Heaven that you are still with me,’” said Suzka. “A few weeks
later, while clearing up aft er dinner, my husband and I were
sharing the joy and love that Sophie gave us. He said, ‘You were
a good mom to her and she loved you.’ Just then, I accidentally
spilled left over red sauce. My being upset instantly turned into
tears of happiness!”
Sophie’s favorite food had spilled into a perfectly shaped red
heart, confi rming her husband’s words.
“Never doubt that our pets are truly forever,” said Suzka.
“Th ey send us signs to calm our hearts and let us know they
will always be with us.”
Now, Sonja has two stories for to share:
“On my 15th birthday, which is also Christmas, my father
and uncle caught a two-year-old mustang, we named ‘Stormy,’
near Death Valley,” said Sonja. “Th ey chose the horse because
of the white heart on his forehead.
“I love horses. So, when I went out to the corral and saw
him I was thrilled! I named him Stormy because he was caught
during a rare desert snowfall. Th at horse was the best birth-
day/Christmas present I ever had. He was the ‘go to’ ride for
my mother when she and my father went into the back-coun-
try hunting for venison. Stormy could pack out a deer with no
trouble, and was willing to do whatever was asked of him. His
only drawback, as far as my dad was concerned, was that he
never let men ride him, tossing any guy right off ! A discerning
horse.”
Another one of Sonja’s pet stories is about her dog Ben who
spotted a young possum making its way towards the fence line
bordering a stream.
“Th is was odd behavior for a possum,” said Sonja. “What
was it doing out in broad daylight? Upon seeing Ben, naturally
the possum fainted dead away. Ben sniff ed it and looked at me
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Sonja’s dog, Ben,plays possum
with a puzzled expression. Of course, Ben knows how to play
dead so maybe he would make the connection?”
As the possum stayed still and Ben sniff ed it, Sonja went to
the carport and grabbed a clean heavy rag and hurried back.
“Th e possum was no fool, it was still ‘dead.’” said Sonja. “I
covered it, carried it and then, as far as I could reach, gently
placed it through the fence and covered it with the rag. Ben did
not want to leave the possum, but being a good boy he came.
Once home, I gave him his favorite treat of chicken for not
hurting the little critter.
“I like possums which are also referred to as opossums. Th ey
are related to the koala and kangaroo and are useful to have
around. Th ese furry marsupials are not dangerous to humans
and are nature’s sanitation engineers keeping the environment
clean by eating roaches, rats, snails, mice, small rats, moles and
dead animals.
“Possums must be nature's most dedicated optimists! Aft er
all, they are betting their lives that whatever scared them into
a catatonic state will not hurt them as they lay there vulnerable
and helpless. Apparently, a possum cannot move once it’s faint-
ed, even if it wanted to. Hormones fl ood their mind keeping
them motionless. I wonder if I could do that if a grizzly bear
walked up and sniff ed me? Food for thought — no pun intend-
ed!
“A little while later, Ben and I walked back to see if Miss Pos-
sum was still there, but she had recovered and waddled away. I
hope she sticks around to help in my garden this spring!”
TIPS:
“When you fi nd a fainted or fatally injured female possum,
check the pouch for babies. Th ey can be raised by hand with
advice from an experienced rehabber. Th ey are adorable and
will ride on your shoulder and chirp like baby birds when hun-
gry,” suggests Sonja.
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