Show nn lam e eJ J I IL ILa a y yH a F y made Home Presents Arc Are a Pleasure to Receive See Recipes Below Presents From the Kitchen Goodies of sugar and spice quivery quivery quivery ery sweet fruit-sweet jellies and citron and cherry lacked r fruit cakes all these make won won- wonderful wonderful wonc c r presents Wrap them in gay T Christmas trap trap- trappings trappings w a pings and you'll I 1 have a gift that any anyone one will be proud to receive A few days spent in the kitchen with a well-organized well schedule will yield enough cookies cakes and jel jel- jellies jel- jel jellies lies to take care of any number of friends They'll appreciate the thought and care you have taken in preparing something especially for them Many homemakers canned fruit juices last summer which they want to make into jelly now that they've saved enough sugar A few jars of o these colorful jellies will make ex ex- excellent excellent excellent presents Grape Jelly Makes 11 ounce C-ounce glasses 4 cups grape juice 3 cups sugar 34 3 cups light corn syrup Yi cup liquid pectin Measure out the juice and place itIn it itin itin in a large kettle with the sugar and syrup Mix thoroughly Bring to the boiling point and boil 3 minutes Add liquid pectin stirring constant constant- ly Then bring again to a full roll roll- rolling rolling rolling ing boil and boil hard Vi minute Remove from heat skim and pour into hot sterile glasses Paraffin at once Apple and Orange Marmalade Makes 10 ounce 6 glasses 1 lemon 1 orange t 3 pounds tart apples apples' z y 3 cups sugar Vz cup water 3 cups corn syrup Extract juice from lemon and or or- orange orange orange ange and strain Then grind the rinds of both fruits Peel core and slice apples inch thick Weigh out 2 Z pounds of the sliced apples or ormeasure ormeasure ormeasure measure out 2 quarts Place juice and ground rind of lemon and or or- orange orange orange ange together with sliced apples in ina ina a large kettle Add sugar water Stir well place over heat and bring to a boil Simmer for 50 minutes stirring frequently Skim pour into sterilized jars and seal im im- immediately mediately A tangy well flavored well well-fl jelly is al ali al- al always i ways handy to have with a roast or casserole You will particularly like this one made with honey r Lemon Honey Boney Jelly Makes about 6 glasses i i cup lemon juice 23 2 cups honey Vt cup liquid fruit pectin Combine lemon juice and honey Bring to a full rolling boil Add pec pec- pectin pectin tin stir vigorous vigorous- vigorously ly and boil about r 2 minutes Pour wo into hot sterile y glasses Cover with paraffin to seal Conserves and IDI I unlit fruit butter utter will lill f I give nice Olce variety to the packed home-packed gift In both of the following recipes slow cooking Is recommended to allow the mix mix- mixtures mixtures tures tires to reach a thickened con con- consistency consistency consistency Baked Apple Butter Makes 12 ounce 6 glasses 4 quarts quartered apples 3 cups water LYNN CHAMBERS' CHAMBERS MENUS 1 Scalloped Spaghetti with Chicken Cl Peach Nut Salad Brussels Sprouts Orange Bread Beverage t Applesauce Cake 1 1 LYNN SAYS Make Your Own When you are giving away homemade presents go out all-out on decorations For fruit jars make a wrapping of white cardboard and paste cheery Christmas stickers on them Select three or four jars of pret pret- pretty pretty pretty ty colored jellies Wrap them in paper and tie the tops all together er with one long ribbon Deco Deco- Decorate Decorate Decorate rate with pine cones Fill a well-scrubbed well fruit bas bas- basket basket basket ket with luscious fruits grapes and nuts Deck it out with holly and a great big bow Use plain cardboard boxes for cookies and candies and paste on colorful holiday paper Finish off of with ribbons holly and pine cones Plump popcorn pop orn balls can be tied in gay wrappings Leave a loop in the ribbon so they can be hung on the tree if desired 1 cup cider 5 cups sugar sugars s teaspoon cinnamon k 34 teaspoon allspice y 1 teaspoon cloves Cook apples in water until soft Force Forc them tem through a colander Add remaining ingredients Cook in a slow degree oven for 8 hours stirring every half hour Seal in hot sterilized glasses at once Pear Conserve Makes 9 ounce 6 glasses 12 medium sized pears VA n cups pineapple 1 orange juice and rind 4 cups sugar 4 cups corn syrup 1 small bottle maraschino cherries Chop pears and pineapple Add orange orang juice rind sugar and syrup Let mixture stand overnight Next morning cook slowly until thick about 2 hours Add chopped chopped maraschino cherries and seal in hot sterilized jars or glasses No gift to any family is complete unless there is something special I tucked in for the I youngsters If you 1 Z it have used your 1 S t. t quota of sugar on other Christmas baking you will want recipes for sugar-easy sugar sweets like popcorn balls or peanut brittle that take only a little bit Special care should be used in wrapping these gifts for the children as they may want to hang them on the tree Use plenty of ribbon and anc let them be gay with stickers Molasses Popcorn Balls naIls Makes 12 to 14 balls 4 quarts popped corn 1 tablespoon butter 1 cup sugar 1 cup molasses k teaspoon salt Melt butter add sugar molasses molas s sand and salt Boil on medium flame or heat until it reaches the crack stage degrees This is slightly hard hard- harder er than the hard ball stage Pour Pourover Pourover Pourover over corn Stir corn thoroughly hands Butter while pouring syrup immediately and shape corn into bans balls One cup of hulled peanuts may be added to the corn if desired Peanut Brittle U 1 cups shelled peanuts i 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup sugar H cup light corn syrup t J cup water VA 1 tablespoons tables lemon butter teaspoon lemon extract nuts with salt and warm Sprinkle and nd corn com syrup in oven Put sugar water in a pan s stir ir until the mixture Wash down sides of pan with boils brush and cook until mix mix- mixture mixture wet pastry when tried in m in is very brittle ture hire cold water Add flavoring butter Turn into shallow greased and nuts can be the candy n As soon as pan it out as asas and stretch handled handled thin as possible p pular Pull possible Break into Irregular ular pieces Newspaper Union bY br Western |