Holiday gadget guide sparks cooking gift ideas
A seasonal survey reviews popular kitchen gadgets and price ranges from under $25 to $50, highlighting items like Presto Bread Slicing System and Mr. Coffee Potato Perfect. It notes shortages on electric grills, rising interest in coffee and waffle irons, and tips to buy practical tools such as Sawsome Turner Tong and Cuisinart Mini Prep.
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Holiday baking builds family time with cookies
The holidays bring stress but also chances to set aside time for family. Baking cookies offers a calm activity that strengthens traditions and creates personal, inexpensive gifts adults and children can share.
Christmas Cookie Log Braid with Red and Green Chocolate
A test kitchen recipe for Christmas cookies. It describes sugar shortening eggs syrup flour walnuts and white chocolate to form dough logs baked then sliced into diagonal cakes. Cookies are dipped in red and green melted chocolate and cooled. Makes about two dozen cookies.
Sugar and Butter Packing in Old Recipe Note
A scrambled recipe fragment describes packing brown sugar into cups and mixing with butter or shortening. It mentions specific measures and suggests a method for pressing into cups, with unclear additional ingredients.
Chocolate Mint Sandwich Cookies
A vintage recipe for chocolate mint sandwich cookies. Ingredients include shortening, brown sugar, cocoa, and mini chocolate chips, with a peppermint filling colored red. Instructions cover batter mixing, baking at 350 degrees for 15 to 18 minutes, cooling, and assembling two cookies with peppermint frosting and crushed candy. Makes about two dozen cookies.
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Date filled almond cookies from old recipe fragment
A fragmented recipe details making date and almond filled cookies. It covers dough preparation with brown sugar, eggs, flour, and spices, chilling, rolling, filling with date almond mix, and baking at 375 degrees for about 7 to 9 minutes. Yields about six dozen cookies.
Spritz Cookies Recipe Card
Spritz cookies with almond extract and vanilla. Cream butter and sugar, beat eggs and syrup, mix with dry ingredients, press dough onto sheets, bake at 375 degrees for 7 to 9 minutes until bottoms are golden, cool and decorate. Makes 7 to 8 dozen cookies.
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Packing cookies for mail in sturdy containers
Use a sturdy box or empty coffee can and line with aluminum foil or plastic wrap. Wrap four to six cookies of equal size, seal, and repeat until full. Place heaviest cookies at the bottom, intersperse with crumpled paper towels, and use bubble wrap for dividing layers. Seal and wrap the container, print addresses in waterproof ink, and mark the package Perishable Food for careful handling.
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