I (Bouquet P I ! Evany Good Cook t deAQAvte a. Bouqu&t ( BY BETTY 0, Ro.,. I JIMEWEZ R0SW J m ' mnn., 1 1 - I r .... ' '' ' ' ' T , v ' '. Bea Oxley mixing bread This week's bouquet goes to Bea Oxley. Bea Oxley Is a charming warm -hearted lady who is always concerned about the people around her. She loves to give special service to friends, family and relatives when they need her. She is always traveling somewhere to help someone. Once she even traveled to Hawaii when someone needed her help. Bea was born and raised with one sister and four brothers in Manti, Utah where she graduated from High School High School. Bea is very well educated having obtained her B.S. Degree at BYU.She also attended the University of Utah, AC at Logan, University Univer-sity of California, and SUSC at Cedar City. She majored in Education and has taught school in San Pete, Nephl, Carbon County, Provo and Milford. When Bea was a young girl in Manti she can remember re-member when the Armistice was signed at the end of the First World War. All the town people Immediately set to work to have a big town meeting to celebrate and give thanks with a program and dinner. There was a terrible flu epidemic around this time and many families had been stricken and lots of people died from the flu so whenever when-ever they went out in public many took to wearing face masks and she canremem-ber canremem-ber many of the peopl that ber many of the people that day wearing their face masks to the celebration. They always had big 4th of July parade with a Patriotic program pro-gram at the church following the parade. Patriotism was really stressed when she was growing up. They also had special programs at the church for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Bea had a special summer one year when she was able to go to the Manti Temple and do card and record indexing when she was a young girl. She was also one of the children child-ren allowed to be baptized in the temple when she was eight years old. Bea met her husband Floyd while she was teaching In Provo and they were the parents of one daugher. Floyd died when Amanda was a very young girl. Bea now has three lovely grandchildren, grandchild-ren, two little girls and one boy. Bea and her family moved to Milford in 1953. When her husband died she started teaching here in the Elementary School where she taught for 11 years before retiring. She taught school for thirty one years all together. to-gether. Bea has spent her life influencing in-fluencing young people not only in the school system, but she has devoted a lot of time teaching them in the Primary, Sunday School, and Mutual programs of the LDS Church where she has been teaching since she was 14 years old. She has also worked in the ReliefSociety. Bea enjoys making quilts doing geneology work, good music and attending the theater. She has always been active in Civic and Political organizations, working with the Republican party and the BPW and other education activities. Bea loves to make rolls and pies and she loves to share them also. She is often asked to take rolls to funeral luncheons and other places. She takes them to the homes of families who have lost a member of their family and she shares them with the families of her visiting teaching district at Christmas Christ-mas time. Bea's rolls are delicious and she makes them without a recipe but has made up a recipe so we can try to make them. She said the cookie recipe is the only cookies that ever turn out well for her. ROLLS 1 quart mllk,,l potatoe (med ium size) 34 cup shortening, 2 eggs, 2 packages yeast or 2 Tablespoons dry yeast, 12 to 34 salt, 8 cups flour. Cook the potato. Add shortening short-ening to the milk and heat. Mash the cooked potato and add to the liquid, let cool to lukewarm. Add eggs and yeast, beat well (use electric hand mixer). Add the flour and mix until dough is stiff enough 0 roll out, you may need to add more flour. -Put the dough in a warm place to rise. Let the dough rise three times, double Its size. The first two times knead the dough about four minutes when it comes up the third time you can roll the dough out and cut the rolls the size you desire. Spread melted butter or margarine over the rolled out dough then cut out rolls. Place In a well greased pan. Let rise to double. Bake at 450 for 15 minutes. Makes six dozen. Raisin Spice Cookies 12 cut vegetable shortening, shorten-ing, 12 cut brown sugar, 2 eggs, 1 cup chopped seeded raisins, 1 12 cups flour, 12 teaspoon salt, 1 12 teaspoons tea-spoons of baking powder. 2 teaspoons of cinnamon, 12 teaspoons cloves, 12 teaspoon tea-spoon of allspice, 1 Tablespoon Table-spoon of molasses, 2 Tablespoons Table-spoons milk. Cream shortening, add sugar and eggs oneatatlme; beat until light. Add raisins, flour, salt, and baking powder pow-der (dry ingredients to be added alternately with molasses mo-lasses and rollk).Mix well, drop by teaspoon on well greased cookie sheet. Bake 10 to 12 minutes. Makes about three dozen cookies. Chopped pitted dates can be used in place of raisins.