Show iE iid rJ Ji fI V W wl AM III ir a o Ep I J il J I Z V o j VIt mj ame i Save Your Sugar For Canning but Bake Sweets Too If you need luscious chocolate cookies quickly make these which take so few Cew minutes to bake and frost Crost Children adore them and your guests will win give them an encore The oldest of our rationed commodities com cam commodities is still with us even though the situation has eased to a certain extent The sugar bowl is perhaps still not as full as we would like to have it but we can still manage to have our sweets and still sitU save enough for canning if we are watch watch- ful jul The youngster will still come in peeking into the cookie jar and we westill westill still have guests who like a bit of ofa r a sweet as they c spend an evening U of conversation 0 Or- Or or games with us For these p purposes purposes pur pur- poses I have selected selected selected se se- se- se some recipes recipes reci red pes which we will all find useful For the cookie cookle fans here are some recipes which are bound to please Molasses Cookies Cookle Makes 75 cup shortening 14 cup mol molasses 4 cup brown sugar Vi 14 cup thick sour milk 3 cups sifted flour 4 J teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons baking soda 1 teaspoon ginger 2 teaspoons lemon extract Mix shortening which has been melted with molasses molasses' and sugar and stir until smooth Add sour BOUT milk then sifted flour with salt soda and ginger Add lemon extract Mix until smooth Chill until firm Roll dough on a lightly floured surface to inch thickness and cut into assorted assorted assorted as as- sorted shapes as desired Place ona on ona ona a greased baking sheet and bake ina In Ina ina a moderate degree oven for 8 to 10 minutes Roll thinner if crisp er cookies are desired Chocolate Frosted Cookies Makes 3 dozen 1 cups silted sifted flour 1 l teaspoons double acting baking powder H teaspoon salt 3 squares unsweetened chocolate 4 f tablespoons butter buttercup cup sugar sugu 1 eg egg unbeaten 3 H cup milk 1 teaspoon vanilla Sift Sill flour once add baking powder and salt and sift slit again Melt chocolate chocolate choco choco- late and butter over hot water add sugar and mix well Add egg and beat thoroughly Add flour and milk alternately and mix until smooth Add vanilla Drop from teaspoon on greased baking sheet and bake in a moderate degree oven for 7 minutes When cold spread with fudge frosting and place a half pecan pecan pecan pe pe- pe- pe can in the center of each Quick Fudge Frosting 3 squares unsweetened chocolate 2 Z tablespoons b butter 12 marshmallows cut In pieces cup water Dash of salt 2 cups caps silted sifted confectioners' confectioners sugar SUlar 1 teaspoon vanilla Place chocolate choc lat butter marshmallows marshmallows marsh- marsh mallows water and salt In sauce sauce- pan Heat over low flame until chocolate a and n d marshmallows are melted and mixture is b smooth and well blended Remove from fire tire and add remaining remaining remaining remain remain- ing ingredients Beat until of right consistency to spread Use on chocolate chocolate chocolate choc choc- frosted cookies or to coVer caver top and sides of two inch eight-inch layer layer lay lay- er cakes With just 3 cup of sugar and the use of a sugar substitute you can satisfy the sweet tooth with no less than 30 delectable cup cakes LYNN C CHAMBERS CHAMBERS' MENU MEND Vegetable Platter Asparagus Cauliflower r Tomatoes and Corn Toasted English Muffins Deviled Eggs Molded Grapefruit Salad Beverage Strawberry Pie Recipe given Plain Cup Cakes Makes 30 2 cups sifted cake flour 2 teaspoons baking powder pO 4 teaspoon salt salti i cup shortening lf cup granulated sugar 4 cup corn syrup 1 egg unbeaten 9 tablespoons milk 1 teaspoon vanilla teaspoon lemon extract Sift together flour baking powder and salt Cream shortening and sugar together until light and fluffy Work in corn syrup and beat until light Add Vi of flour mixture and blend in thoroughly Add unbeaten egg and beat thoroughly Add remaining re re- rc- rc flour and milk alternately beating smooth after each addition Blend in vanilla and lemon extract Turn Into greased and floured muffin muffin mute fin tins and bake in a moderately hot degree oven for 25 minutes or until done Frost as desired Sugarless Chocolate Icing 2 squares unsweetened chocolate 1 can sweetened condensed milk mills 1 tablespoon water Dash of salt 14 teaspoon almond extract Melt chocolate in top of double boiler Stir in gradually the condensed condensed con con- condensed milk and cook 5 minutes over hot water Stir SUr until smooth Remove Remove Remove Re Re- move from heat and add water salt and almond extract Cool and frost cup cakes Strawberries are here in all their bright and will add a delicIous deli deli- clous cIous sweet dessert dessert dessert des- des sert to your menus for tor their extremely short season Because the berries are so sosweet sosweet sosweet sweet you can take it rat rather her easy on the sugar when sweetening them In fact many people find them so sweet that they use no extra extra extra ex ex- ex- ex tra sweetening at all i Berries like strawberries which are ire naturally sweet need little extra extra ex ex- tra ira sugar Plan to serve them In pies tarts and as shortcake as often as 5 possible during their short sea sea- son aon Strawberry Pie Prepare 1 baked inch 9 pie shell Just before serving wash and hull 1 I L quart of fresh strawberries Sweeten Sweet Sweet- en lightly to taste and then fold into pint of cream which has been whipped Spread In pie ule shell and serve Or sweeten berries to taste and fill baked pie shell Top with whipped cream which has been garnished garnished garnished gar gar- with whole berries Winter pears make tasty pies for jaded spring appetites For something something something some some- thing a little different try this French Pear pie French Pear Pie 6 S cups sliced fresh winter whiter pears 2 Z tablespoons lem lemon n Juice H 4 cup corn com syrup H 14 cup sugar Ji teaspoon ginger 2 tablespoons flour One 9 Inch unbaked pastry sheL sheh Select pears which are firm but not hard Peel core slice Mix with lemon juice corn syrup sugar ginger ginger gin gin- ger and flour Place In pastry lined pie plate Topping 3 H cup cap shortening J 34 cup brown sugar 1 cup flour Cream together shortening and sugar Mix in hi flour Spread over pears in pie shell Bake at degrees degrees degrees de de- de- de grees for 45 minutes or until pears are tender and topping Is brown Eight servings Serve warm or cold Released by Western Newspaper Union Make Moke pastry ahead of time and allow to chill before belore adding the Water water water wa wa- ter If you like the crust flaky For cream pies be certain the fillIng fill fill- filling ing as well as the pastry shell sheU is thoroughly cooled before putting the two together When you make an attractive red berry pie pic always use a lattice crust so that the beauty of the berries can be seen immediately If U you do not want a top crust or crumble topping make a lattice top out of the scraps of pastry This Is 11 easy on your bud budget et too |