Evening star., 1949-01-06
LACE COOKIES.

from Mrs. w. w. B., Washington. J
A request was made for lace
cookies by Mrs. j. H. L., of Arling-
ton. Here is my recipe which
have submitted once before about 2
years ago.
Two tablespoons butter or other
shortening, cup sugar, / tablespoon
flour, 2 eggs, beaten, u teaspoon
salt, v teaspoon nutmeg, az cups
quick cooking rolled oats, az tea
spoons baking powder. teaspoon
vanilla.
Cream butter Cor other shorten
ing), add sugar and stir well. Add
beaten eggs. Mix salt, nutmeg, quick
rolled oats, -four and baking powder.
Add to first mixture and mix we'll.
Add vanilla. Grease cookie sheet
and put the dough in little mounds
on the sheet, about a teaspoonful
in each mound. Place them about
2 inches apart as they will spread
in the baking:
Bake in moderate oven $3.50 de-
grees) II to IS minutes. Remove
carefully at once, placing on board
or waxed paper, using a spatula or
broad knife. Makes so cookies.
(Frons Mrs. w. r. L., Washington. J
Molasses Lace Cookies: One
fourth cup molasses, "a cup shorten
ing, 4 cup sugar. "a teaspoon salt,
u cup sifted all-purpose flour, "a
teaspoon baking powder, 70 tea
spoon soda, 4 cup minced nuts
(peanuts or pecans are good.
Put first three ingredients in
saucepan, bring slowly to boil and
boil minutes. Remove from fire
and stir in remaining ingredients
well mixed first). Drop half tea
spoons Of mixture onto well creased
cookie sheet, 3 inches apart. Bake
in moderate oven (not above $50 F.,
as these cookies burn easily about
10 minutes. Take from pan with
spatula while still warm and leave
as is or quickly shape them in rolls
over the wooden handle of mixing
spoon. (They harden very fast and
make a deliciously thin. crisp
cookie almost like candy.) Caution !!
Don't try to bake too many at one
time or they may harden before
you can remove them from he pan.
If this happens run them back in
the oven for a few seconds to soften.
(From M. S. s., W1sTington.)
Beat one egg well and slowly add
u cup sugar and / teaspoon oil and
u teaspoon salt. Then add one half
cup each of coconut, nutmeats, and
uncooked, quick-cooking oatmeal,
and / teaspoon vanilla. Drop by
spoonsful on q creased cookie sheet
well apart (they spreadD. Bake at
375 degrees about 10 minutes. Lift
from pan with spatula at once.
These are the quickest cookies I
know Of and they are delicious.
Makes "a cookies.
NEWLYWEDS.
from Mrs. r. J. A., Takon1a Park.
For Mrs. L. H., Washington: I
suggest you inquire in other churches
until you find some with Couples
Clubs" The First Congregational
Church at 10th and G streets NV,
and the Takoma Park Presbyterian
Church near the D. G. line both
have active couples clubs to which
many young newlyweds belong.
The latter is open to any one in the
community. Many churches in
cluding the ones above also have
clubs for young wives through which
contacts with other couples can be
made. The Mount Vernon Place
Methodist Church has an open
house to which any one is welcome
for square dancing and ball room
dancing every Saturday night. I
have met some nice newlyweds at
this group.
II X
WRAPAROUND PATTERN?
(Frons Mrs. J. j. X, Wnshtngton.)
Please, could any one tell me where
to get pattern for a wrap around
dress that crosses over in the back
instead OF front? I have tried all
the department stores in Washing
ton that sell patterns and could not
locate one size 16 or 18.