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Show I . ! , , , 1 . . ... . -6. NEW DESIGNS FOR YOUR COOKIE JAR t (See Recipes Below.) t COOKIE SURPRISES All crisp, crunchy, and some - slightly nuUy, all of today's recipes are so fashioned as to send you on a real cookie-baking spree. Fill that lovely cookie jar of yours until the sides are fair-; fair-; ly bulging with eoodies so vou THIS WEEK'S MENU Meat-Macaroni Casserole ' Jellied Cole Slaw Salad Watermelon Pickles Hot Rolls Spiced Pears Baked Apple Butter Balls Beverage Recipe Given Your cookie jar problem can be solved very neatly with toothsome oatmeal cookies with flecks of chocolate choco-late in them: Oatmeal Cookies. (Makes 4 dozen) J4 cup butter or shortening 1 cup brown sugar Grated rind of 1 orange I egg, unbeaten 1 teaspoon vanilla y teaspoon salt cup sifted flour Vi cups fine rolled oats 7 ounces chocolate pieces Cream butter and sugar. . Add orange or-ange rind, egg, vanilla and beat well. Add salt and flour which has been mixed with the oats. Add chocolate pieces and work into batter. bat-ter. Drop by spoonfuls on greased cookie sheet. Bake 15 to 20 minutes in a moderate (375 degrees) oven. Recommendations are in for the old favorites' of which you never tire. If you want to make a pretty and at the same time, a very successful suc-cessful platter, you might try alternate al-ternate rows of both these Ginger Gin-ger Cookies and can have cookies a-plenty to put in .the children's lunch boxes, to serve as afternoon snacks, and as a pickup pick-up for mealtime. If you're doing some baking for a bazaar, there's nothing quite like plates of yummy cookies to put over ..the sales. Remember, you can sell Ja lot more, if you give out some samples. These can be set on plates rwith white paper doilies, for sampling, sam-pling, and those to be sold put in boxes already fixed. Cookies can be sold by the dozen if they're fancy and somewhat elaborate, by the pound, if they're small drop cookies or squares. Here's an interesting variation of the filled cookie, both dainty and delectable: de-lectable: Corn Flake Filled Cookies. (Makes 36 medium-sized cookies) 1 cup shortening 1 cup brown sugar 3 'A cups flour 2 teaspoons baking powder V teaspoon salt Vi cup water Vz teaspoon vanilla 2 cups cornflakes Blend shortening and sugar thoroughly. thor-oughly. Sift flour, baking powder and salt together and add alternately alternate-ly with water and flavoring to first mixture. Stir in coarsely rolled corn flakes. Chill. Roll dough to & inch thickness. Cut with cookie cutter. Spread one round with filling, put on a second round and press edges together to-gether with a fork. Bake on a greased baking sheet In a hot (425 degrees) oven about 12 minutes. Filling. Vi cups chopped dates 14 cup sugar 2 tablespoons water 2 tablespoons orange juice 1 tablespoon orange rind Combine all ingredients together and cook until soft paste is formed. Cool before filling cookies. These little butter balls make good nibbling and smart additions to your teatime table. Made with butter, their flavor will be something you'll long cherish and remember. Butter Balls. (Makes 7 dozen small cookies) cup butter 1 cup brown sugar 1 egg 2 cups sifted flour teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla Vi cup granulated sugar M cup finely chopped nuts Cream brown sugar and shortening. shorten-ing. Add beaten eggs and vanilla. Brownies: Soft (Jinger Cookies. (Makes 5 dozen) 1 cup shortening 1 cup sugar 1 egg Vi cup molasses cup evaporated milk 3 cups flour 2 teaspoons soda 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon each, ginger, cinnamon Cream sugar and shortening, add egg and molasses. Beat well, add milk and blend well. Mix dry ingredients ingre-dients and add to batter. Last add soda, dissolved in 2 tablespoons warm water. Drop by spoonfuls on greased baking sheet. Bake 15 minutes min-utes in a hot (375 degrees) oven. Brownies. (Makes 2 dozen) Vi cup butter or shortening 1 cup sugar 2 eggs, well beaten 2 squares unsweetened chocolate, melted cup flour Vi teaspoon baking powder Vi cup chopped nuts 1 teaspoon vanilla Beat eggs and sugar together. Add to this melted butter and chocolate and blend. Add flour, baking powder, pow-der, nuts, and beat well. Pour into a greased pan and bake 30 minutes in a 350-degree oven. Cool and cut in squares. For a delicious variation of the brownie recipe, you'll like the addition addi-tion of Vi cups of bran cereal in place of the chopped nutmeats. They'll give you a slightly different flavored cookie, but guaranteed to please you, just as welL Meat-Macaroni Casserole. 1 package macaroni cup salad oil 1 pound hamburger 1 dry onion, minced 1 green pepper, minced 1 clove garlic, if desired 1 can tomato soup 2 cups peas 2 cups corn Salt and pepper Cook the macaroni in plenty of boiling salted water and when tender, ten-der, put in a sieve and rinse with cold water. Meanwhile fry the hamburger ham-burger in the heated oil, stirring it occasionally to separate it. Skim out the meat and in the same fat cook onion, pepper and garlic till tender, but not browned. Garlic may be omitted entirely, and it is usually removed after the onion and pepper are cooked. Combine all ingredients in-gredients and simmer 20 to 30 minutes min-utes to heat thoroughly and blend flavors, then serve. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Add flour and baking powder. Roll into balls the size of marbles. Mix the granulated granulat-ed sugar and nuts and roll the balls in the mixture. Place on a S3 , greased DaKing sneer ana dhkc in a hot (400 degrees) oven 10 minutes. These cookies will flatten slightly. LYNN SAYS: An assortment of cookies, freshly baked and packed in tins with waxed paper between layers makes a delightful present for youngsters away at school and for friends you seldom see. When your own cookie jar has been filled to bulging, pack a few boxes from what you have and spread cheer to others, too. Careful packing in tins with waxed paper will keep even small dainty cookies fresh for a long time. Some flavors like chocolate choco-late improve after they stand for some time. Chewy, nutty cookies are the more chewy and delicious deli-cious after several days. Spicy cookies become moist and well flavored after standing. |