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TWO MZDFORD (OREGOJf) MA.IL TRIBUTE
Thursday, December 8, 1955
PREPARE FOR CHRISTMAS Light the oven and prepare for
Christmas. Time to start baking spicy cookies for family guests
and holiday giving. Recipes for festive fragrant cookies from
manyl.ands are included in today's food columns. Make your
baking a "family affair."
Feeding the Family
By ZOLA VINCENP
rood Editor
Traditional Old-World
Christmas Cookie Recipes
t Pnnkip repines. with em
Dhasis on sDiced ones, have been
adapted from many lands for
modern American use. iar
easier to make than the origi
nals,(t)iey still retain their tradi
tional spicy goodness.
O There is fragrant fun for
everyone concerned when you
make your holiday cookie
baking a real family custom.
Let. or even coax, father into
shelling and chopping nuts, or
whatever. Allow the children
to give vent to their creative
O imaginations by way of decorat
ing the results of your com
bined efforts.
Pfeffernuesse Festive
German Spice Cookie
From Germany comes this de
lightful cookie, often called
"pepper nut," because of its
combination of spices with, odd
ly enough, ground black pep
per. These keep well.
3 cups all-purpose flour
A teaspoon soda
A teaspoon salt g
teaspoon double-acting bak
ing powder
A teaspoon macs
A teaspoon ground allspice
9A teaspoon cardamom
V4 teaspoon ground black pep
per V6 teaspoon ground anise seed
1 cup strained honey
8 tablespoons shortening
1 egg
Sift flour, soda and spiceg to
gether. Heat honey until thor
oughly hot, but do not boil. Add
shortening. Cool, then beat in
egg and gently stir in dry in
gredients. Do not over mix. Let
dough stand 10 minutes to
stiffen enough to handle easily.
Shape into one-inch balls. Place
on lightly greased cookie sheets
and bake 13 to 15 minutes in
moderate oven (350 degrees).
Cool and frost with Pfeffer
uesse frosting made as follows:
Pfeffernuesse Frosting: This
recipe will make sufficient frost
ing for five dozen Pfeffernuesse.
Combine one unbeaten egg white
with two teaspoons strained
honey and one-fourth teaspoon
ground anise seed. Gradually
beat in lVz cups confectioners'
sugar, using an electric or rotary
beater. Beat well. ' Place 12 to
14 cookies in separate bowl. Add
two tablespoons frosting and
stir till frosted on all sides. Lift
out with a fork onto a wire rack
for frosting to harden. Repeat
until all cookies are frosted.
Dundee Tea Bars
Of Scotch Origin
This good Scottish fruit bar
is a "good keeper" and traveller
when packed carefully in tight
ly closed jar, tin or box.
IVi cups sifted all purpose flour
1 teaspoon double-acting baking
powder
Va teaspoon salt
Vz teaspoon ground nutmeg
Vz cup shortening
Vz cup sugar
2 eggs
Va. cup glaced cherries, chopped
Va. cup candied pineapple,
chopped
Va, cup raisins, chopped
V4 cup citron, chopped
Sift flour, bakmg powder,
salt and nutmeg together and set
aside for later use. Cream short
ening and sugar together. Beat
in eggs, then stir in flour mix
ture. Add fruits and mix well.
Line a 9x9x2 inch pan with
waxede paper and grease lightly.
Pour" batter and spread or pat
uniformly over bottom of pan.
Bake in slow oven (325 de
grees) 25 to 30 minutes or until
lightly browned. Turn out onto
wire rack. Brush with lemon
glaze made as follows and allow
to cool. Cut into 24 bars.
Lemon Glaze: Mix one-fourth
cup sifted confectioners' sugar
with one teaspoon water and
one-half teaspoon fresh lemon
juice until smooth. Brush thin
ly over warm cakes or cookies.
Spiced Oatmeal Rocks: Here
is another goodie from Scotland.
Sift three cups sifted all-purpose
flour with one teaspoon salt,
one teaspoon ground cinnamon
and one teaspoon ground ginger.
Add two cups brown sugar and
one cup quick-cooking oatmeal.
Mix thoroughly, then stir in one
cup melted shortening, two
tablespoons buttermilk or sour
milk and four eggs. When well
blended, add two cups raisins
and one cup chopped nuts. Mix
well. Drop from teaspoon onto
greased cookie sheets. Bake in
moderate oven (375 degrees) 15
to 17 minutes. Store in tightly
closed container. Makes six
dozen cookies.
Rolled Christmas Cookies
Perfect for Holiday Cut-Outs
This recipe came to us orig
inally from our European cous
ins. It is just right for doing cut
outs of your favorite holiday
motif. Children will love to help
decorate. Use glaced fruits, col
ored sugar, decorettes, frosting
or whatever else you and they
like.
2V cups sifted all-purpose flour
Vz teaspoon salt
teaspoon soda
lVz teaspoons ground ginger
1 teaspoon ground allspice
23 cup butter or margarine
Vt cup mild, light molasses
23 cup sugar
Sift flour, salt, soda, ginger
and allspice together for later
use. Melt butter in saucepan
large enough for mixing cookies.
Stir in molasses and sugar. Add
flour mixture and mix well.
Chill until dough is stiff enough
to handle, usually about an
hour. Roll to one-eighth inch
thickness on a lightly floured
board. Shape as desired with
cookie cutters or sharp knife
using your own cardboard sten
cils as guides. Bake on un
greased cookie sheets in hot
oven,' (400 degrees) five to seven
minutes. Remove from cookie
sheet at once. Cool then dec
orate. Give Groceries and
Please the Family
First, and right away, if you
haven't already done so, give
consideration to sending one or
more CARE packages to those in
other countries who are less for
tunate than your family at this
holiday season. These special
holiday packages are carefully
planned to offer a maximum of
food at minimum cost. Local
CARE folks will welcome your
"order," expedite it and insure
a merrier Christmas for others
as a result of your generosity.
Now, while you're making
your holiday lists, give a thought
to the fiscinating array of good
things to eat that make fine
"from our family to your family
with love" presents. Plain or
f ancy, e very-day fare or gourmet
items, the choice is wide. A few
suggestions are: A box or basket
of rosy red or golden colored
apples; a luscious holiday assort
ment of pears or other fresh
fruits; home made or a distinc
tive commercial pack of jams
and jellies or of pickles and
relishes. Cheese assortments will
delight the ' gourmet on your
list as will canned fish and shell
fish specialties. How about a col
lection of spices and herbs for
your favorite cook. Then there
are fruit cakes, breads, cookies,
puddings and candy, all of
which have been holiday gift
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toddlers, and the pig-tail crowd, the high-schoolers, and
their moms and dads, too, enjoy this sparkling thirst-quencher
with the c-o-o-1, cleari taste.
" But, Grarttlma how about you and 7-Up?
"I've been enjoying 7-Up for years, and I know I can
keep right on having it. Nothing does it Eke 7-Up!'
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successes for a long, long time.
Or maybe candied or dried
fruits would be just right.
Party-Minded Tuna Souffle
Sandwich "En Casserole"
If you are planning a lunch
eon party during this busy sea
son, we think you will-be most
enthusiastic about this truly dif
ferent tuna dish because of it's
party looks and economical be
haviour. A fruit salad is good
with this.
8 slices white bread
1 cup flaked tuna (7-ounce can)
Va. cup chopped celery
V cup chopped green pepper
Vz cup shredded cheddar cheese
Vz cups milk
3 eggs beaten
1 teaspoon salt
18 teaspoon paprika
Trim crusts from bread (or
not, as you wish) and place four
slices in greased eight-inch
square baking dish. Combine
tuna, celery and green pepper
and spread over slices of bread.
Sprinkle cheese over all. Top
with remaining four slices of
bread. Combine milk, eggs and
salt, mixing well. Pour over
bread. Sprinkle with paprika
(and additional cheese, perhaps)
and bake in slow over (325 de
grees) for 40 minutes. Makes
four servings.
Holiday Onions Are
Spiced and Creamed
Many people find creamed
onions a perfect compliment to
Superior Strain of Lumber Trees Eyed
Salem (U.R) Research forest
ers of the Oregon State Forestry
Department looked over 7,000,-
holiday poultry and other meats.
Here is a new and quite differ
ent way of doing them. Inex
pensive, delicious.
3 to 4 dozen small white onions
18 pound butter (V4 cup)
1 teaspoon sugar
Va. cup water
Whole cloves
Salt and pepper
1 tablespoon butter
1 teaspoon flour
1 cup thin cream .
Peel onions and parboil until
almost tender in salted, boiling
water. Drain in .colander then
let cold water run over them
for a second. Melt butter in fry
ing pan, add onions and sprinkle
with sugar. Brown slowly, shak
ing pan frequently for even
browning. When brown, place in
shallow baking dish, sticking a
whole clove in every third onion.
Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
Add water to frying pan and
heat until you have a brown,
syrupy liquid; pour over onions.
Make a thin cream sauce cf the
one tablespoon butter, one tea
spoon flour and thin cream.
Pour over onions; place dish in
350 degree oven' and bake about
20 minutes. Makes six to eight
servings.
000 douglas fir seedlings in the
selection of 300 two-year-olds of
superior height which may pro
vide the nucleus for a superior
strain of lumber trees, according
to the Forestry Department.
Research Foresters Dale Bever
and Jack Gartz said more than
a month was required to choose
the 300 choice seedlings from
the year's supply of small doug
las firs at the Oregon forest
nursery.
For the next five years the
300 selected seedlings will be
compared with the growth of
regular seedlings in experi
mental plantations. If they out
strip these in continued growth,
foresters feel they may have
hit upon something of value.
Reformatory Escapee
Tells of Two Killings
El Centro, Calif. (U.R) Paul
Krube, 17-year-old reformatory
escapee and Air Force deserter,
admitted killing two Mexican
farm workers to get food, Im
perial county Sheriff Herbert
Hughes said yesterday.
The youth 'who fled a Green
Bay, Wis., reformatory after go
ing AWOL from Parks Air Force
base near Oakland, was captured
last night and booked on suspic
ion of murder.
Surplus Grain for
Overseas Relief Backed
Washington (U.R) Chair
man Harold D. Cooley (D-N.C.)
of the House Agriculture Com
mittee yesterday threw powerful
congressional support behind an
appeal by church leaders for re
lease of surplus grain for over
seas relief.
Cooley told a reporter that
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T.
Benson would be complying with
the clear mandate of Congress if
he granted the church leaders'
request to share some of the gov
ernment's huge hoard of wheat,
corn and rice with hungry peo
ples abroad.
Brooks-Scanlon Man
Heads Forest Industries
Portland (U.R) Al J. Glas
sow, of Brooks-Scanlon Lumber
company, Bend, has been elected
president of the Associated For
est Industries of Oregon at the
group's annual meet here.
Glassow was a former presi
dent of the National Lumber
Manufacturers association.
Other new officers elected
were Nils Hult, Junction City,
first vice-president, and Frank
R. Gilchrist, Gilchrist, second
vice-president.
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