Handmade gifts from home shine this season
The Southern Illinoisan advises crafting gifts to reflect personal talent rather than store bought items. Suggestions include preserves, pickles, needlework like shirts or afghans, gardening cuttings, dried arrangements, and colorful wrapped jars. A hot pepper jelly recipe using cider vinegar and pectin is provided with step by step directions and yielding six half pint jars.
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The
Southern Illinoisan
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Delightful Cheese Plate and Easy Candy Recipes
A ready-to-serve cheese spread with butter chicken liver base pairs with crackers, plus several simple candy recipes. Includes fudge with milk chocolate and peanut butter, crumb balls with bourbon, marshmallow mixtures, and turtle clusters with pecans and milk chocolate. Yield ranges from two cups to five dozen pieces.
Caffeine in drinks and pills flagged in consumer guide
Consumers Union warns caffeine appears widely from soft drinks to pills. Many sodas add caffeine, making soft drinks the second largest dietary source. Tests show Mountain Dew, Mello Yello and Sunkist among the highest, while numerous sodas contain none or only trace amounts. Decaf options, tea strength, and labels help limit intake.
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Mountain Dew
Mello Yello
Sunkist Orange
Mission of Mercy or Selfish Rescue Plan
A reader seeking Ann Landers approval for an affair with a married man with a booze problem, framed as a rescue mission to revitalize his life, is rejected as self serving. The columnist cautions against pursuing the affair, calling the plan red and urging the reader to back off.
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Ann Landers
Buster
Ann
Mutual Assistance Advocator
Mutual
Jimmy
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