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Show Holiday Recipes Use these recipe suj to add color and your holiday celebrating. Holiday Treats You Can Extend To Friends By DONETA GATHERUM Cookie recipes are always in demand. Many groups go out on cold evenings caroling. A warm drink is welcome when the caroling is done. Small eatable treats extended to friends when they stop to visit or deliver a present are more effective than thank you notes mailed later. Traditional people might want to try a modern version of the English Wassail. Nut breads can be frozen, defrosted quickly and served at home or the whole loaves make good presents for neighbors. A RANDOM sampling of recipes sometimes is useful. The reader might be stimulated to try one of the following recipes or the reader might want to search out other recipes they have never used before. V f t 7if ;vi ' , i' r 'V? 4 1 t y. i f - , i , , i THUMBPRINT COOKIES The thumb dents can be made by children and filled with jelly. V2 cup shortening (part butter or margarine) Va cup brown sugar (packed) 1 egg, separated Vi tsp. vanilla 1 cup flour Va tsp. salt V cup finely chopped nuts . Jelly or tinted sugar HEAT OVEN to 350. Mix shortening, sugar, egg yolk and vanilla thoroughly. Measure flour and blend with salt; stir in. Roll dough into balls, 1 tsp. per ball. Beat Roll egg white slightly with fork. Dip balls in egg whites. on inch one ungreased baking in nuts. Place about apart sheet; press thumb gently in center of each. Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until set. Cool. Fill thumbprints with jelly - or tinted sugar. . . ... MEXICAN HOT CHOCOLATE quarts milk 3 jars fudge topping 3 11-o- z. tsp. ground cinnamon 12 cinnamon sticks (optional) COMBINE milk, topping and cinnamon in a blender or with an egg beater. Heat over low heat, stirring well until blended. Makes 12 servings. Add the cinnamon sticks to the individual cups of chocolate. Va FRUIT SALAD DRESSING Combine 1 cup of mayonnaise with 1 cup of cranberry Chill jelly and Vi cup whipped cream. Beat until smooth. before serving. GLORIFIED RICE An attractive dessert that probably hasnt been tasted before Vi cup raw rice 2 cups boiling water Vi cup sugar 24 marshmallows, cut in quarters 1 cup pineapple, cut in cubes or shredded 1 cup apple, chopped 1 cup whipping cream Candied Cherries COOK RICE until soft but not mushy. Cool. Add and let stand sugar, marshmallows, pineapple and apple for one hour. Fold the whipped cream into the mixture cherries. just before serving. Garnish with candied 8. 6 Serves to ORANGE BREAD yeast cake 1 Tbsp. butter 1 Tbsp. sugar Va cup sugar 1 cup orange juice 1 tsp. grated orange rind 1 tsp. salt i2 cup finely cut candied orange peel f 3V4 cups flour HEAT ORANGE juice until it is lukewarm, then add it to the yeast, sugar, butter, salt and grated orange rind. rise Add three cups of flour and beat until smooth. Let of flour half the other Knead cup in size. double until into the dough with the candied orange peel. Make the it rise again. Bake for 40 dough into a loaf and let oven. 375 minutes in a degree 1 PEPPERMLNT Vi Tfbe Clipper Publishing Co. hopes that all your dreams come true in the new year! CANDY CAKE cup butter cups sugar eggs, separated Vs tsp. salt IV2 tsp. vanilla Va cup sour milk or buttermilk Vt tsp. soda 2Vk cup sifted flour 3 tsp. baking powder i2 cup finely crushed striped peppermint stick candy (candy canes) canVi cup coarsely crushed striped peppermint stick dy (candy canes) CREAM THE butter, add the sugar and mix until light and fluffy. Add the egg yolks and vanilla and beat well. Add the sour milk or buttermilk into which the soda has been beaten, alternately with the flour, baking powder and salt which has been sifted together, beating after each addition. Fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites. Turn into the finely crushed peppermint candy. Bake at 375 for 25 to 30 minutes.Frost and sprinkle the coarsely crushed candy over the top. Housewife Is Worth $7 An Hour 1 V2 3 Full-Tim- e e The work of a housewife with two children is worth an average of $7 an hour in 1982 dollars, according to a study by University of Utah and Cornell University consumer economists. DR. CATHLEEN D. Zick, U of U assistant professor of family and consumer studies, and Keith Bryant, a Cornell professor of consumer economics and housing, based on data colleted from a 1977 survey of 1,475 full-tim- then-stud- y d households, with dollar values ad- two-paren- t, two-chil- justed to meet last levels. years Their $7 figure, based on a new type of calculation they call the opportunity cost method, is $1 to $2 higher than previous estimates which assumed the value of housework is what it would cost to hire an outside housekeeper. THE OPPORTUNITY cost method devised by Zick and Bryant assumes the value of housework is the wage rate a housewife would have to be offered to enter the job market. full-tim- e The method produces higher estimates than the replacement strategy because it takes into account the management component of housework and the typically higher quality of work done by housewives, says Zick. Manage- rial skills come into play here with the homemaker, more so than with a hired housekeeper, because she has to juggle a lot of jobs at once. She also has other considerations, like managing a budget, which requires more skill and makes her more valuable. ZICK NOTES that the aver-'ag- e unemployed homemaker with two children works seven hours a day, seven days a week in meal preparation, house keeping, child care, yard and at $4.36 to $5.06 and $4.32 to car maintenance, shopping and clothing care and construction. Her employed counterpart still spends five to six hours a day in those activities. As the age of the youngest child increases or the number of children increases, so does the value of housework. Using the new method of calculation, Zick and Bryant found the value of such household labor for employed wives was between $5.11 and $5.84, and between $6.42 and $7.59 e housewives. The for $5.41 full-tim- traditional replacement method puts the dollar values respectively. FOR TOO long homemaking has been undervalued or ignored, says Zick. I hope this knowledge will allow women to choose homemake ing as a occupation to realize their economic importance to their families and feel good about their contributfull-tin- ion. The study has already generated interest from attorneys and others. If youre a fulltime homemaker and youre injured, its hard to come up with a figure if you family wants to cover lost wages, says Zick. Some lawyers have asked me to testify in such cases on the basis of our fmdings. ANOTHER practical application, she says, is for purchasing insurance. The breadwinner is typically insured, while the homemaker doesnt know if or for how much she should be insured. The study also raises questions of retirement or social e security benefit for homemakers, says Zick, who notes that the study is just a first step. Next, we will take the statistics and apply them to useful policy decisions. full-tim- I |