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6B MAIL TRIBUNE, Medforcf. Ore., Thuraday. December 11, 1958 ( TOM Jf$l?s CHRISTMAS COOKIES - Here are festive, fragrant cookies that are easy to make, exciting to decorate; eye-appealing, taste tingling. Christmas cut-outs, vanilla coconut bars, brown sugar crescents, and other recipes are included in today's food columns for home parties and for packing in appropriate containers as family presents. Feeding the Family By ZOLA VINCENT Food Editor Bessie's Biscuits Recipe Repeated We're sorry as we can be We goofed. We thought we were infallible and then we fell. In a recipe last week for Bessie's Bacon Biscuits, we omitted "how much" vinegar and how much milk for the making of better biscuits. It seems that a lot of people are interested in old - fashioned biscuits baked with soda; phoned to ask "how much", All were kind and under standing, and we're deeply appreciative of that. Sift together two cups sift ed all-purpose flour, one tea spoon baking soda, one-eighth ' teaspoon salt and one-eighth teaspoon pepper. Add one quarter cup finely crumbled cooked bacon and one-quarter cup bacon drippings; mix well. Combine one - quarter cup vinegar with one-half cup milk; mix well. Add to flour mixture, mixing lightly. Drop by tablespoonfuls on greased baking sheet. Bake in hot oven, 425 degrees, 10 to 12 minutes or until lightly browned. For party tidbits, make tiny ones. Personalized Cooky Creations Home made cookies, art fully decorated are a joy to make, easy to bake. Festive and fragrant, they can be ex citingly different in their de licious taste and as beauti fully varied in design as an artist's repertoire of holiday cards. Let the children help! Make It a family affair with favor ite relatives, friends and good neighbors in mind so that the message may read "from our family to yours with love". Experiment first, perhaps, on a few batches for your very own family parties, letting the children have their fill then end there of the "sam ples". Christmas cookies are among our happiest back-to-ehildhood memories; the smell of pure vanilla extract mingling with the scent of pine and the sound of carols. We think the use of pure vanilla extract important be cause it retains its delicious true flavor throughout bak ing. For giving, make the gift's joy linger longer by packing the cookies in an interesting container; anything from a re frigerator dish like the one pictured to a gleaming black teakwood bowl. Crumpled packing. Pressed Cookies These easy-to-make cookies are shaped with an inexpen sive cookie press especially beloved of present teen-age cooky makers. They may be decorated with colored sugar or glazed fruit before baking, less- , Compare the cos of t ', ' Clabber Girt, ounce for ounce, with that of - etfcer leading brands Yoh"S be surprised! cy V- Qabbor Gtrt te exchrsiwtly known as tte baioog powder ,ttth the balanced double action ... balanced for uniformity in both mixing bowl and oven. BALANCED Doabt Action BETTER Baking 11 CLABBER Goad BoMcfceeprng Or decorate them with con fectioners' sugar and water frosting after baking. Store in tightly closed tin box or jar. You'll get about seven dozen cookies. 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour Vi teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon double - acting baking powder cup butter or margarine 1 cup sugar 1 teaspoon pure vanilla ex tract " 1 egg Sift the first three ingre dients together; set aside for later use. Cream butter or margarine, sugar and pure vanilla extract together until fluffy. Beat in egg. Gradually stir in flour mixture. Fill cooky press with the dough. Form cookies on ungreased cooky sheets, two inches apart to allow room for spreading. Bake only until edges are lightly brown, 10 to 12 minutes, in a preheated hot oven, 400 degrees. Chocolate Dipped Cookies. Dip ends in semi-sweet choco late, melted over hot water (not boiling). Then dip into or sprinkle with sesame seed, colored decorettes or chopped nuts. Cut-Out Cookies Fancy cooky cutters come in many appropriate holiday shapes; stars, crescents, bells, Christmas trees and turkeys, among others. Any size round or diamond shaped cutters at hand are fine. These cookies may be frosted as desired with confectioners' sugar and water icing. Decorate with glazed fruit, colored sugar, chocolate decorettes, colored decorettes or silver dragees. Four dozen cookies, assorted shapes. 4 cups sifted cake flour 2Vi teaspoons double - act ing baking powder Vz teaspoon salt ZA cup batter or margarine IVi cups sugar 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract 2 eggs 4 teaspoons milk Sift the first three ingredi ents together and set aside to use later. Stir butter or mar garine in a mixing bowl until soft. Gradually blend in sug ar. Beat in pure vanilla ex tract and eggs. Stir in sifted flour mixture and milk. Chill one to two hours or until dough is stiff enough to handle. Roll dough out one-quarter- inch thick on lightly floured board. Shape as desired with cooky cutters. Bake on light ly greased cooky sheets in a preheated hot oven, 400 de gree's, 10 minutes or until cookies have browned around edges. Cool on wire racks. Brown Sugar Crescents In these easy-to-make cook ies, dough is shaped into crescents, baked, then rolled in sifted confectioners sugar or partially dipped in semi sweet chocolate that has been melted over hot water (not boiling), then sprinkled with sesame seed, colored decor ettes or chopped nuts. Recipe makes five dozen cookies. 1 cup softened butter or margarine Vz cup light brown sugar Vt teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract 2i cups sifted all - purpose flour Confectioners' sugar Cream softened butter or margarine with brown sugar until fluffy and smooth. Blend in salt and pure vanilla ex tract. Gradually add flour, mixing well after each addi tion. Chill dough one to two hours or until stiff enough to handle. Shape into cres cents. Bake in preheated mod erate oven (350 degrees) 12 to 15 minutes or until lightly brown. Remove from cooky sheets. Cool then store in a tightly closed cooky jar or box. Note decorating ideas above. Toppings for Gift Goodies Everybody loves chocolate and those tiny semi - sweet morsels or bits of chocolate are ideal for decorating cook ies. As buttons on snowmen, points on stars, balls on Christmas trees; place whole chocolate morsels or bits on cookies before baking. Snow frosting for spreading on baked cookies is made like this: combine lVz cups sifted confectioners' sugar and two tablespoons water (a little more if necessary) and stir until smooth. Tint frosting with drop of red or green food coloring, if you like. For decorating cookies use a decorator's tube or a cor nucopia made with a paper drinking cup or other cone of paper. Combine and melt one cup semi-sweet chocolate morsels or bits and one table spoon shortening over hot (not boiling) water; let cool slightly. Spoon a small amount of melted chocolate into cone. Fold over top. With scissors, cut off tip of paper cup or cone of paper. This Minced Clam Sauce Makes Macaroni Magnifique Give new flavor and tex ture excitement to macaroni by dredging it with this in triguingly different sauce originated to capture the full flavor, .of canned minced clams, minced onion, wine if you wish, and other fine sea sonings for a magnificent macaroni dish. Definitely party-worthy. Eight servings. 3 tablespoons instant minced onion or 3A cup finely chopped raw on ion Vi teaspoon garlic powder or 2 finely crushed cloves garlic 13 cup white table wine or chicken broth Vi cup butter, margarine or cooking oil J,4 teaspoon powdered rose mary Vi teaspoon salt 2 (7-ounce) cans undrained minced clams Vt teaspoon gravy coloring 2 teaspoons cornstarch V2 cup minced parsley 1 (12-ounce) package large macaroni shells 2 tablespoons soft butter If raw onion or garlic is used, cook in the one-quarter cup butter until soft; continue as directed in recipe. , Combine onion, garlic, wine, one-quarter cup butter, rosemary, salt and clams. Simmer for 20 to 25 minutes. Blend in gravy coloring and cornstarch. Simmer five minutes longer; blend in half of parsley. Meanwhile, cook macaroni in boiling salted wa ter just until tender; drain. Stir the two tablespoons but ter into hot macaroni and ar range on large hot platter. Pour clam sauce over all and sprinkle remaining parsley over top.. Almond Blanching To "blanch" almonds means to remove their little brown skins. However, except for light fruit cakes, we're in clined to leave the skins on the almonds. If you want them blanched, however, do it this way: Cover almonds with water. Bring to a boil. Drain off water and as soon as cool enough to handle, slip off their skins individually by holding nut between thumb and forefinger and pressing gently. be sure to ask for o CHEETOS o BAR-B-Q FRITOS Ideal for Watching TV or Snacks Family Cake & Cookie Co. L. S. (Stan) Tiegs, Distributor Talent Ph. KE 5-2775 Finance Head Urges Major Overhaul of State Government Salem-ffiPD - State Finance Director John Richardson has recommended a major over haul of state government to make state agency programs more responsive to the gen eral public and less subject to pressure from special interest groups. Richardson recommended the reorganization by the ex ecutive department as hei s sued a chart showing current organization of Oregon's gov ernment. The chart showed that Ore gon had a total o fl59 agen cies including 86 boards and commissions plus 26 advisory boards and commissions The finance director said faulty state organization was graphically illustrated by his chart. Benefits Listed Reorganization would bring many benefits, Richardson said. It would: -Make possible efficient utilization of costly equip ment. -Lessen the possibility of warping of state policy by one or two major departments. -Improve the effectivness of programs by securing bet ter coordination of related ac tivities and putting first pri ority programs at the top. -Improve the opportunities to attract and hold better man agement personnel. -Increase the productivity of the tax dollar substantially. Richardson suggested that the 1959 Legislature give gov ernment reorganization a top priority, based on the report of the Interim Committee on Government Reorganization. Executive Could Lead He had no objection to the executive department taking the lead in reorganization as he felt there were adequate legislative checks on the ex ecutive's power. Gov. Robert D. Holmes had suggested such a reorganiza tion to eliminate and consoli date functions of many boards and commissions. Included in the organiza tional chart were 10 bodies composed soley of ex-officio officers, 4 inactive agencies and 19 professional and oc cupational licensing boards and commissions. He counted 17 elective of fices, 116 operating agencies, including the 86 boards and commissions and 26 advisory bodies, all of them boards or commissions, for a total of 159. UN General Assembly Marks Human Rights United Nations, N. Y. -UPD -The United Nations General Assembly met Wednesday to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The boll weevil destroys an average 352 million dollars worth of cotton in the South each year. Gas Odor Investigated By Medford Firemen .An odor of gas discovered coming from a storm sewer manhole in the 900 block on North Riverside ave., about 6:50 p.m. Tuesday was traced to solvent allowed to enter a storm drain, firemen said. 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