Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 14, Number 21, DeMotte, Jasper County, 7 April 1944 — HOUSEHLD MEMOS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HOUSEHLD MEMOS

by Lynn Chambers

Fill the Cookie Jar Sometimes I think the cookie jar is the favorite piece of equipment

in the American home especially in the kitchen. At least it’s the most popular, and that’s not just among the youngsters for many a time the oldsters

make the path to the cookie jar just as often as the children. If there are cookies in the house, then it’s the kind of a house that spells “Welcome Home,” for cookies are not just delightful to have, they often take the edge of! hunger when it’s most necessary—after school, or after a meal to give it the finishing touch. Cookies aren’t hard to make They last lofiger than cakes They take less ingredients, and they go much further. Sate Used Fats! Oatmeal and peanut butter have long been popular ingredients in cookies, but here they are together j—guaranteed to be doubly popular: Oatmeal-Peanut Butter Cookies. (Makes 4 dozen) % cup peanut butter 3 tablespoons shortening Vi cup brown sugar 1 2 cup granulated sugar % cup sifted-all-purpose flour *4 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons baking powder Vs cup water I*4 cups oatmeal Cream peanut butter snd shortening; add sugars gradually, cream-

ing entire mixture Stir in sifted dry ingredients and water. Add the uncooked oatmeal. Chill dough. Roll dough thin on lightly floured board and cut with cookie cutter. Dough may also be rolled and chilled and sliced

*4 inch thick. Bake on a greased baking sheet in moderate (350-de-igree) oven for 10 to 12 minutes. Save Used Fats! If partified cookies are desired, frost with powdered sugar icing i when baked and decorate wdth candied cherries and nuts. Hermit Bars. % cup butter or substitute 1 cup brown sugar 2 eggs, well beaten *4 cup milk or coffee 1 cup baking molasses or sorghum 4 cups sifted rake flour 1 teaspoon salt % teaspoon soda 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon each, ginger, cloves 1 cup nuts, chopped 2 cups raisins Mix butter and sugar together. Add well-beaten eggs, milk -or coffee, molasses and about 1 cup of flour. Beat well. Mix and sift remaining flour, salt, soda, baking powder and spices and add to first mixture. Add chopped nuts and raisins. Grease pans and line with waxed paper. Spread cookie mixture evenly in pans and bake in a moderate (350-degree) oven until

firm. Cut into squares while warm and remove from pans while still warm Sate Used Fats! A cornflake cookie wdth orange flavoring will really enchant the family: ♦Cornflake Refrigerator Cookies. (Makes 5 dozen) Vi cup shortening Vi cup sugar 2 teaspoons grated orange rind 2 cups cornflakes 1 % cups sifted flour 2 teaspoons baking powder *4 teaspoon salt *4 cup milk Blend shortening and sugar together. Add orange rind Crush

cornflakes into fine crumbs. Sift flour, baking powder and salt together. Mix with crumbs. Add to first mixture alternately with the milk. Shape the dough into rolls about I*4 inches

in diameter. Wrap in wax paper and chill until firm. Slice and bake on ungreased baking sheets in mod erately hot oven (425 degrees) about 12 minutes. Save Used Fats! Economy Brownies. 1 cup sugar 2 tablespoons shortening 2 squares melted chocolate Vt cup milk 1 egg 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 teaspoon baking powder sifted in 1 cup flour 1 cup nuts, chopped fine Mix in order given, bake in a greased shallow pan in a moderate oven (350 degrees) for 20 to 25 minutes. Cut in squares and cool. Get the most from your meat! Get your meat roasting chart from Miss Lynn Chambers hx writing to her in care of \Vestern Newspaper Union, 210 South Desplaines Street, Chicago 6, 111 Flease send a stamped, self-addressed envelope for your reply. Released by Western Newspaper Union.