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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1964-02-27, Page 28r*.S:::A4reir4rW M.07,16I,.••- r. e '•••• • -4"."'"”*.40"":01r.'••••••'..,, • • of,,AVene4444'°°4 ;4'4'14 AA:40V4 THE CLEAN and ECONOMICAL WAY TO COOK Only electricity cooks so clean. In your all electric kitchen curtains stay crisp, fresh and beautifully clean. Walls stay clean. Pots and pans never sooty. FLAMELESS electricity just can't make dirt. There's no pilot light, no flame to go out. And even the air in your kitchen stays garden fresh. COOL as a breeze, your all electric kitchen makes cooking a pleasure. Your electric range puts the heat in the food, not in the kitchen. AUTOMATIC controls make electric. cooking the surest and easiest in the world. In fact, nothing else is as automatic as electricity. You'll love cooking with electricity . . . . and your family will live better in your . all-electric kitchen. For Information tall Your Hydro "40 ...Sir" Exeter Public Utilities Commission Cakes and cookies COCOANUT PASTEL LOGS 1 pkg (3 oz) cream cheese 2 1/2 cups sifted icing sugar 1/4 tsp vanilla dash salt 1/2 cup grated cocoanut food coloring Beat cheese until smooth, gradually add sugar and blend well. Add yanilla, salt and co- coanut and blend. Divide in 3 parts. Color 1 part pink, 1 part green and leave 1 white. Grease a small pan 8 x 4 (or use half an 8 x 8 pan), Put in pink mixture, then add white mixture, on top add green mix- ture. When set cut into desired sizes. Yield 16-1"x2" logs. Mrs. Gerald McFalls, RR 3 Exeter. OLD-FASHIONED OATMEAL COOKIES 2 cups sifted pastry flour 2 cups oatmeal (not instant oats) 1 cup brown sugar 1 cup shortening (part butter) 1/4 to 1/3 cup of hot water 1 teaspoon soda, sifted with the flour 1 teaspoon vanilla Cream shortening and then add sugar and cream well. Add flour in which soda has been sifted and oatmeal. Add water gradually also add vanilla. Roll thin, cut, and bake in a moderate oven 350-375 de- grees on greased pan. Do not overbake. May be put together with jam or date filling. Mrs. Emalie Carter, Exeter. LEMON DREAM CAKE Base: 2 tbl brown sugar 1/2 cup butter or margarine 1 cup pre-sifted all purpose flour Mix together and spread in greased pyrex dish, 8" x 8". Bake at 350 degrees until light brown. Cool the base thoroughly before putting top on. TOP 1/2 cup brown sugar 3 eggs well beaten 2 tablespoons flour (pre- sifted all purpose) 1 tsp baking powder 1 cup chopped walnuts 1 cup dessicated cocoanut 12 red halved cherries (for color) 1/4 tsp salt Mix and pour over base and bake at 350 degrees until golden brown. Cool well before putting topping on. TOPPING 1 1/2 cups icing sugar, sift if lumpy 1 tbl butter rind and juice of 1/2 lemon and enough milk to mix. Refrigerate; cuts into 25 pieces. Mrs. Len Veri, Exeter. GINGER SNAPS (like you buy) 1 cup white sugar 1 cup molasses 1. tsp baking soda 1/2 cup boiling water 1 cup shortening 1/2 tp pepper 1 heaping tsp ginger 1 tsp salt all-purpose flour to stiffen. Dissolve soda in hot water, add to all the ingredients above, mix well:Keep adding the flour and work it in till it can be rolled into balls. Pinch off about the size of an egg yolk or bigger and roll into balls. Dip one side into white sugar and place about 1 inch apart on a greased cookie sheet. Do not make dough too stiff or cookies will not spread nor crack as they should. (I've made these in the early 30's.) Mrs. Rachel Schwalm, Hensall. * * * See-dad fr DAD'S COOKIES 1 cup white sugar 1/2 cup brown sugar 1 egg 1 cup butter or substitute 1 1/2 cups oatmeal 1 cup pastry flour 1 tsp baking powder 1 cup cornflakes (slightly crushed) Mix ingredients well, roll in balls. Place on greased cookie sheet. Bake till brown in 375 degree oven. Mrs. Edward Finkbeiner RR 2 Crediton * * * BANANA CAKE 1/2 cup butter 1 cup sugar 2 eggs beaten 1 cup mashed bananas 4 tbl sour milk 1 level tsp soda pinch of salt 2 cups pastry flour sifted 2 tsp, baking powder Cream butter and sugar; add eggs and beat together. Add mashed bananas. Dissolve soda in sour milk. Sift flour, baking powder and salt together; add to batter. Bake in a square pan at 375 degrees for 35 minutes. Mrs. Fred Dixon, London. HOT POTATO CHOCOLATE MACAROONS 3/4 cup hot potatoes (mashed well) 1 lb icing sugar 3 tbl cocoa 2 tsp butter 1 tsp vanilla 1/2 lb fine cocoanut Mix all together and drop on waxed Paper. Do not cook. Mrs. Wm. Cook, Grantonoe ICE-BOX COOKIES Melt 3 squares of unsweeten- ed chocolate (over water). Take: 1 egg well beaten 1 cup icing sugar 1/2 pkg miniature marshmal- lows (colored) 1/4 cup walnut pieces 6 red and 6 green cherries (cut) Combine above ingredients and mix with the melted choco- late and roll in coconut. Keep the roll in refrigerator and slice as needed. Mrs. John Selves, Hensall, UNBAKED BROWNIES 1/2 cup white sugar 1/2 cup butter 2 tablespoon cocoa 1 beaten egg Mix altogether, put on stove, let come to a bOil and boil 1 minute. Stir in 1/2 lbcoarselybroken graham wafers, 1/4 cup of chop- ped Peanuts or walnuts and vanilla. Press in greased 8" square pan. Chill and cut in squares. Mrs. Hugh Morenz, RR 2 Dashwood. SHORTBREAD 1/2 cup cornstarch 1/2 cup all purpose flour 1/2 cup icing sugar 1 cup butter Sift together cornstarch, icing sugar, and flour in bowl. Blend butter into dry ingre- dients until a soft dough is formed. Shape in balls about 1 inch in diameter, flatten with floured fork. Bake 300 degrees 20 to 25 minutes. Yields from 3 to 4 dozen. Mrs. Eben Weigand, RR 1 Dashwood. r", TIMES-ADVOCATE COOK BOOK 1964 Dad's cookies runner-up