The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-11-23
Good to- Eat Christmas Presents.

If you have neither the time nor in
clination to fashion Christmas gifts will
your needle and find those in the shops
which appeal to you as suitable for YOU
various friends, too costly, do not de
spair for there are ever so many good
to-eat presents which are not expensive
and which will be welcomed with delight
wherever they go.
| Maybe you have friend who has en-
joyed your pet fruit salad with honey
dressing; send her basket containing
the ingredients to make it--six bananas
three oranges. one cup of chopped nuts
| a head of lettuce and a jar of dressing
with recipe for making it. A Christ
mas touch may be added by decorating
the basket with winter ferns, pine tips
or holly and tinsel bow
Write the busy relative who is trying
to be man of the house and housewife
too-or perhaps the girl who is strug
Cling with light housekeeping you
will send the Christmas pudding. 1t is
very little trouble to add to your recipe
when making for your own family and
if you wrap the pudding mold for your
friend in red crepe paper and tie it with
green raffia or ribbon you have a very
festive gift at small cost.
| have heard so many housekeepers say
they would be glad to send cake as
present, But it meant so much baking
the day before Christmas in order to
have it fresh, that it was impossible to
get it done. You can make the follow
ing cakes a week before Christmas and
they will keep perfectly: Rub together
half a cup of butter and one and one
half cups of honey and blend with them
the unbeaten yolks of three eggs. After
thoroughly beating add five cups of flour
sifted with two teaspoons of cinnamon,
one-half teaspoon of salt and one and
one-half teaspoons of soda dissolved in
two tablespoons of orange-fower water
or plain water. Beat this well and fold
in the whites of the eggs whipped to
stiff froth. Bake in tins and ice before
sending with frosting made as follows:
Mix one egg yolk, one teaspoon of lemon
juice the grated rind of an orange and
a tablespoon of the juice and allow it to
stand an hour, then strain and add con
fectioner's sugar until thick enough to
spread.
81 love to see neat row of fruits and
in glass jars on my preserve
closet Shelves" said an old lady to her
cousin. This was a suggestion eagerly
seized upon, and a jar of peas, small |
beets and snap beans were given a
1hristmas-y appearance by covering the |
tops with wax paper, fringed and tied |
about the necks with red and green rib |
BON and spray of pine.
If you live on farm your home made
meat or head cheese. gaily
wrapped in Christmas attire, will be
welcomed by your city friend who must
'ften pay 35 cents a pound for good
ausage and spareribs accompanied by
urnips or apples will fit into any larder.
f Cousin Mary has a weakness for
quash pie she will be pleased with one
II two of your Hubbard squashes.
The old -time flavor of rose geranium
n mint in apple jelly will take to the
Invalid a Whit of the country. Remem-
er, too, if you live where English wal
uts, butternuts, pecans, or any of the
'hristmas nuts grow, that holly or
oinsettia trimmed box of the shelled |
heats or of the whole nuts will be re-
eived with ioy.-Woman's World for i
december. Dorothy Dexter. Ii