Show R FILL COOKIE JAR FOR THE HOLIDAYS HOLIDA S. S Supply of Sweet Cakes Is Id Valuable Asset Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture ture As the Christmas holidays draw near a supply of cookies kept in airtight airtIght air airtight tight tins or Jars Is a valuable asset assetto to the housekeeper Perhaps she has boys and girls coming home from boarding school or college with seemingly seemingly seem seem- Insatiable appetites and glowing recollections of the good things mother makes or the holiday season brings unexpected callers and visitors from a aI I distance or there Is need for a few minute last-minute Christmas remembrances II which may well take the form of ot a box or fancy basket of delicious homemade homemade home home- made cookies Bookies Peanuts or other nuts chopped or whole dates raisins figs or frostings of various kinds may be used to modIfy modify modify mod mod- the recipes given below by the United States Department of ture The Tile chopped nuts and dried r d dr r de 4 v A I Just One More Cookie Grandma Please I fruits IDa may be mixed with the dough doughI I or pressed Into the tops of the cookies after atter they have lIa been cut out The amounts used depend on Individual preferences Drop Cookies W. W cupful milk 4 te teaspoonfuls spoonfuls 1 t c cupfuls e 1 f t e o d baking powder powders s wheat soft tt wheat flour 1 y cupfuls sugar Rugar or teaspoonful cupfuls Sifted alfted I salt 3 y wheat hard-wheat flour a 2 teaspoonfuls 3 cupful fat fD t fl flavoring a 2 eggs ggs GS G'S mild flavored The fut fat OlD may be any ny edible dible Ibl fat The given Is i. for tor lard or other fat rat containing no water If It butter buttel or or margarine is used one one- sl sixth th more fat far or two t tablespoonfuls will be required Place the fat In a warin place until It becomes soft though not melted so that It may be combined easily with the sugar This Is just as satisfactory and much quicker than the laborious method of creaming together the col cold I fat and sugar After the fat tat and sugar have been thoroughly combined stir In the beaten egg y yolks lk and add alternately the dry ingredients which have been mixed and sifted together and the liquid At the start add only onla a small quantity of liquid If It too much Is added it dissolves the sugar and the fat separates Into large masses that must be recombIned with the other Ingredients ingredIents ingredients In in- by beating thus making useless useless useless use use- less the work of ot combining the fat and andS S Sugar gar in the beginning Add the flavoring and fold In the well-beaten well egg whites Drop small portions of ot the mixture on a greased baking sheet and bake In a moderately hot oven about degrees Fahrenheit This amount makes about 50 cookies Crisp Cookies U cupful milk or Yi teaspoonful less salt aalt 4 cupfuls sifted 4 teaspoonfuls teaspoonful soft wheat flour our baking powder or 2 cupfuls sugar 3 YI cupfuls sifted 2 eggs e gs wheat hard-wheat flour 3 teaspoonfuls 1 cupful fat see flavoring preceding recipe Combine the Ingredients In the same way as aG for drop cookies Roll the dough thin handling It no more than necessary cut It In any desired shapes and bake the cookies on a greased bakIn baking baking bak bak- In ing sheet In a fairly hot bot oven about to degrees Fahrenheit Instead Instead Instead In In- stead of rolling out the dough it may maybe maybe maybe be chilled and sliced thinly Whether rolled or sliced chilling the dough makes It easier to handle This his amount makes about thin cool cookies cs Children love loe plain cookies cut Infancy in infancy infancy fancy shapes and If it one makes cookies often otten It may pay to have hare a humber of animal or other Interesting cutters on hand band They are made of ot tin and are aro relatively 1 Inexpensive |