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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 30, 1949)
PACE TWO SEC. IV HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON WEDNESDAY, NOV. 30, 14 C j -ti'r ! L..JkJcj ; , Y w u Nov1 S q- HOLIDAY TIME IS time to pock Christmos boxes, but Mrs. Percy Murroy and her daugh ter, Rosemary, consider it fair time that boxes of Christmos cookies go north ond south. One elegant collection will be addressed to the Murrays' other daughter, Marcella, student ot Pomona college at Claremont, Calif., the other to Rodney who is a senior student at Ore gon State college, Corvallis. Lake o' the Woods Long Way Off But Spirit Near Bummer seems a lcnf "way off. but a highlight of the season m the good food on the beech at Lake o' the Woods. Susie can always tell how the summer went by bow many times the kids got to swim In the evening while the mammas grilled steaks, hamburgers, slapped the knit through the watermelon and then used a flashlight to find missing knives, forks, bathing caps, towels and the dogs. A dessert which was one of the summer's delights was baked by my good neighbor Marie Steams and we then and there decided that It was strictly for the holidays and a howling snowstorm outside. Try It with strong black coffee. It's rich enough to stand alone and oh, how good. Holiday Prune Cake (Mrs. Ralph W. 8tean) 14 cups sugar 4 cup butter a eggs, well beaten 1 cup sour milk 14 cups prune pulp 4 cup prune Juice 1 tea. soda 24 cups flour 1 tea. baking powder 1 tea. baking powder 1 tea. cloves 1 tea. cinnamon 1 tea. allspice Cream the butter and sugar. Sift dry ingredients add alternately with the milk to which has been added the soda. Add the prunes and prune juice. Mix well and bake In moderate oven about JO minutes In 3 layers. Filling 2 eggs. 1 cup sugar 4 cup sour cream 1 tea. vanilla 1 cup cooked chopped prune 2 T. butter Dash salt Cook together until thick enough to spread between layers. The red pe calls for Icing the top of the cake with plain white king but Su sie contends that if you spread some of the filling on top and then pipe around the edge of the cake a col ored or white icing It will be Just dandy. This cake is rich but mar velously good. leathern Pecaa Fie Basic Cookie 4 cup butter Two-thirds cup brown sugar, firm' ly packed Dash ot salt cup dark corn syrup 1 eggs, well beaten 1 cup pecans, halved 1 tea. vanilla Cream together butter, brown sugar, salt; stir lp remaining ingre dients. Line an 8-inch pie plate with pastry and pour In mixture. Bake at 40 degrees 10 minutes, then re duce heat to ISO degrees and bake 35 minutes longer. This Is smooth I Cookie Wreaths Frmt with athit bln then mHn. Ue with green sugar crystals. Make a bow with pieces ot candled cherry. Or frost with green Icing, and make a bow of hnllv twrtes inH niMM of candied cherry or red Icing. , - ' SF iaV ' . .Sk 2" DELICIOUS LITTLE FRUIT cokes centered with olmonds or cherries, go into a box that simply sings of holiday good cookery. Mrs. Vern Owens and Jean prepare this Christmos box for Jim Owens who is a first yeor student ot the University of Oregon. He is. inci dentally, a frequent recipient of such good shipments! CUys Top Cooks , Give Susie ilest HvcifWH For Yule By 8I SIK rOOKIK If woman will give pet recipe, you can bet the bot tom walnut in the Christmas stocking that she'd make a jrood stepmother! The recipes for Christmas rakes, canities, cookies, and popcorn balls jriven on this pan were through the gener osity of group of the best cooks we know and we pass tn-m on to you for your holiday cookery. Most are illus trated in this holiday sec- finished tion to show the product: .Mincemeat Cookie Mrs. Percy Murray 1 cups quick or regular oats I cups nunc meat 1 tea. soda 14 cups flour 4 cup butter 1 cup brown sugar 4 tea. salt Work Ingredients Into crumbly mixture, add nata. spread one-half of the mixture into well greased pan and pat firm. Spread on the min-e meat sp-tnkle rest of the mixture over the top. Cook in siow oven 25 minutes or until nice brown and theie It a warm, snuggly aroma In the air. You knew, the holiday baking kind. Cut while warm and remove from pan. Raspberry Caroanut Cookies Mr R. E. Hooker Rub togethei: 1 cup flour. 4 cup butter. 1 teaspoon baking powder. 4 tea. salt. Moisten with cn egg. beaten, and add 1 T. milk if necessary. Cut with a round cookie cutter and dot ot raspberry Jam in renter of each cookie. Make a topping of this: cup sugar. 1 egg. beaten; 1 tea. butler and 3 cups cocoanut. Mix and spread around edge ot rookie, leaving dot of Jam in cen ter. Bake In a moderate oven. 3M de grees, until Just golden brown. Ap proximately 13 minutes. This makes three dozen cookies. Powdered Sugar Cookie Merlon Aibrecht 1 cup powdered sugar 3 cup flour 1 tea. cream of tartar 1 taca cup butter 14 tea. almond extract 14 tea. vanilla 1 egg. well beaten Cream butter, add egg and dry Ingredients. Form into small balls and press with a fork. 8prlnkle with nuts or put cherries on top. Bake in moderate oven until pale golden brown. Ceng Ban Mrs. R. E. Hooker 3 and 3-3 cups flour 4 tea. salt 1 lb. pkg. brown sugar 1 cup nuts, -broken 14 tea. baking powder 3 3 cup shortening 3 eggs 1 pkg. chocolate chips Sift flour, baking powder and salt. Melt shortening, add brown sugar and aUow to cool Add egg one at a tlm and beating well. Add dry ingredients, nuts and chocolate chips. Bak at ISO degrees for IS minutes, and after the last peek in the oven cut In squares. This make about four doaen square and are marvelous for packing In Christmas boxes a they have body and what body! Plum Pudding A floming plum pud ding catches the eye of Mortho Mane, Andy Jim and David as their mother, Mrs. Ross Rag land, lights the brandy poured over the fine, fruit filled confection cn the cover page of this section. Lucile Worner of The Pelicon Cafe baked the plum pudding for Susie Cookie, and cutting into the tradi tional holiday sweet was a wonderful experience for all, including the three little Roglonds. at- V FUled Cookie Mrs. Ferry Murray These cookies are fat and sassy and particularly recommended to boys with good appetite. Take: 1 cup butter or shortening 1 cup sugar 4 2up milk 1 tea. vanilla 34 cups flour 3 tea. baklnt powder Cream butter, add sugar, com bine with milk and flour. Add bak- confectioner's sugar and 1 tea. cln man. mixed. Makes about 5 doaen of the crescent, Iras of the stars. These are crhp and delicious with coiree. Chocolate Drop Cookie Mr. Ferry Murray 4 cup butter 1 egg. beaten 14 cups flour 3 aq. melted chocolate 1 tea. vanilla 1 cup light brown sugar 4 cup buttermilk 1 cup chopped nuts 4 tea. salt Cream ahortenlng. brown sugar: and egg. milk, flour which you've already mixed with sods, and then sifted. Stir In melted chocolate and nuts, along with the vanilla. Drop rrom a spoon and bak on greased sheet In alow oven, about 350 de grees. Time: 13 to IS minutes. Keep out the weathered eye. please. Top with fudge frosting and press down a fat walnut ha f lew ButirreraCrh Ceokle Mr. Ferry Murray Cream 1 cup shortening, add 3 cups brown ugar gradually. Then add 3 unbeaten eggs. 1 cup chop ped nutmeats. and 1 tea. vanilla. Sift together 3 cup pastry flour. 1 tea. salt, 1 tea. baking powder, 4 tea. soda. Add to above mixture. Divide the batter and knead each halt Into oblong rolls about three Inchea In diameter, cover with wax ed paper and leave In ice box over night. Slice very thin and bake In moderate oven for 10 mlnutea. Make 76 delicious, crisp cookies. Christmaa Cookies Mr. Vera Owen 1 egg 3 hard boiled egg yolks 4 cup sugsr 4 cup butter 3 cups cake flour 4 tea. cardamom 1 tea. grated lemon rind Separate egg and beat the yolk with grated lemon rind sugar and butter until ereamv. Add flour and spice and knead well. Cnlll dough. Roll out one-eighth of an inch thick and cut with doughnut cutter. Brush with egg white and sprinkle with chopped almonds and tiny red can dles. Bake at 350 degrees for about 10 minutes or until pale golden brown. These may be cut In dtffrr- l ent shspes snd frosted or decorated C2L5- - Mr-" " , 7 ? TO 11 Qwoy ,rom hom' 0rindino owoy ot frethman stud.es, when you can look forward to boxes of Christmos cookies such as Mrs. R. E. Hooker ond daughter Mary ore packing for Bob of the University of Oregon. Recipes for all the cookies shown on this poge ore in this section. A Good Holiday Feast Must Have A Good Pie . . And Here's Some Sure-Fire Recipes ins powder, then vanilla. Roll out ! on floured board, cut with round cookie cutter, add spoonful of filling on one cookie, and then top with another. Press sides together. Oh, yes, here's the filling. Thought you might like to knew: 1 cup chopped nuts, cup water. 4 cup sugsr, 1 T. flour, a little Jsm of your choice and a dash of lemon Juice to spark the flavor. Bake at 350 degrees for IS mlr.ute or untU gold en brown. Lemon Tort t Merlon Aibrecht Cover bottom of an I x I Inch pan with crushed graham crackers. About eight will do the trick. 8pread with a layer of: 3 egg yolks, well beaten, one can of sweetened con densed milk. Juice of two lemons and a little rind, grated of course. Spread a layer of whipped cream, about cup will do, and cover with another layer of crushed gra ham crackers. Another eight you'U need. Keep In the refrigerator for at least four hours or more. This Is nice for s Christmas supper to follow cold turkey and aquarea of cold spiced turkey dressing. Fudge Bar Mr. Percy Murray 3 egg 1 cup white sugsr 4 cup butter, melted, with 3 squares bitter chocolate 4 cup all purpose flour 1 cup out, -'hopped 4 tea. vanilla, Dash of salt ' These direction are simple. Mix In order, then bake In an ( by I Inch pan, thoroughly greased. In a 340 oven. Cut when cool. Almond Crescents Mrs. Jk O'Neill Mix together thoroughly: 1 cup soft shortening (half butter) 13 cup sugar 33 cup ground blanched almonds Sift together and work In 1 33 cup sifted flour, 4 tea. salt. ChlU the dough, roll In crescent shapes or out flat and cut In star shapes. Bake in a 32S oven for 14 to It minutes. Cool on a pan and while slightly warm caiefully dip In cup ! with bit of candied cherries or citron. Data Cake Mrs. Vern Owen 1 pkg. date (1 cupt 1 tea. soda 1 cup boiling water 3 T. butter 1 cup sugar 1 egg 1 cup chopped walnut 4 cup candled cherries 1 tea, vanilla, 1 4 cups flour 4 tea, salt Cut dstes In small pieces and sprinkle soda over the chopped dstes. Add boiling water and let stand until cool Cream butter and. cnerrlea and vanilla and beat well. Add flour a,.d salt alternately with the cool date mixture. Bake in tiny tins at 350 degrees for about 30 mlnutea. Can be frosted or decorated with nuts and bits of candled cherries or citron. Mskes a delicious Christmas cake that keeps well Expert Cooks Twist Any Dough To Suit Several good basic doughs are given on these psges by Susie Cookie, and why not start from on type of dough In make your Christ ma cookie In varied shspes. To make colored sugar, as we've told you YEAR after YEAR, place some tine granulated sugar In a flat bowl, and carefully add your color ing, red, green or yellow, drop by drop. Stir as you drop so that It will be of jnlform color. Spread thin and let It dry. This last In definitely. It you're making your first ven ture Into decorating cookies for the holidays, let 401 helo you. Christmaa Trees Sprinkle with green sugar crystals before baking, with a few shake of mixed colored candles to resemble tree ornam-nu. Wreaths Sprinkle with green sugar crystals and decorate with any of the fol lowing: Red sugar, silver candy shot, pieces of candied cherry for berries and citron for leave. Do this before baking. what's Christmas, or Thanknilv. Ing or Sunday lor that matter, with out a beautiful, fluted pie to bo brought proudly on your prettiest plate to the tattler This Pumpkin Chiffon Pie recipe Is from Mrs. Emll Aibrecht and is a smooth as a politician's promlM. Pumpkin Chiffon 1 cup brown sugsr 3 egg yolks, slightly beaten 1 cupa cooked pumpkin 4 cup milk 4 tea. each, ginger, salt, allspice 3 tea. cinnamon 1 T. gelatine dissolved In 4 cup water Cook sugar, egg yolks, pumpkin. milk, and spices. In double boiler until thick. Add softened gelatin to pumpkin mixture and cool. When It begins to congeal, fold In three egg whites beaten stiff with 3 T. sugar. Pour gently Into baked pie shell and chill. Oarnlab. with whipped cream. guile's Belleraul Fie 3 cups top milk 1 cup butternut meala. or black walnuta 3 T. cornstarch Pinch salt Sugar to taste, (about like custard) 3 eggs, separated I tea. vanilla 1 baked pi shell Put milk. salt, sugsr and nute lit double boiler and conk. When mix ture la very not. add egg yolks in which eornstarcn hss been blended. 1 envelope gelatine 4 cup mid milk 4 eeg white 3 T. mm 4 eup whipped cream 4 tea. nutmeg Beat egg yolks with 4 rup sug ar, add salt. Add hot milk slowly. Cook in tup 'of double boiler until of rustard consistency, stirring con stantly. Soften gelatine In cold milk, add to hot ruatard and stir unill . gelatine diuolvea. Cool until R starts to thicken. Beat egg whltea until stiff and dry. fold In remain ing half rup of sugar, add rum and Cook until thick and creamy. Add ,, rod ,mo g,i,tn, mature vanilla and allow to cool somewhat. Turn Into pie shell. When it Is cool, add meringue made of egg whites braten stiff and 3 T. sugar. Brown In slow oven at J00 degrees. Suaie'e Rusa Ft 4 egg yolks. 1 cup sugar 4 tea. salt 4 cup hot milk Turn Into baked or graham crack er crumb pie shell and place In re frigerator to i hill until set. When ready to serve, spread with thin lav er of whipped cream and sprinkle with nutmeg. Twin Jsrs of orsnge and grapefruit marmalade, with sprigs of holly on top, make a grand holiday gift. - I 1. jjw. ""-J W:lfi? 3f."! "'f S . v. . g wo. H' IVEN THl PUP GETS IN ON THIS Mrs. 0. K. Puckett ond young Kent ore Involved In holiday candy ond popcorn boll making and the wonderful smells were lust too much for the cocker spaniel, Buffy. Candy ond popcorn ball recipes are in this section lust for you.
