Season's Best Dishes For 2 Or 4 Or 6
By Mary Lee Taylor

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Season’s Best Dishes

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for 2 or 4 or 6 By Mary Lee Taylor Dear Friend , The cookies you make, the candies, the special dishes—even the very smell of them baking or cooking—are things your family will remember long after the holidays. It takes time, of course, to make these good things—but with the recipes in this booklet, it will take much less time. For instance, those delicious Butterscotch Balls and Coconut Kisses are so simple to make there need never be an empty candy jar. If there’s a “junior” cook at your house, let her try them—she’ll be so proud of her success. You will be famous for your cookies when you serve fruity Pineapple Date Bars, or rich, tender Holiday Crescents—which are merely shaped into half-moons, not rolled. Mincemeat Cup Cakes are almost little fruit cakes—and Easy Fruit Coffee Cake is so quickly made with yeast and biscuit-mix you could have...

Nut Fudge

1 minute read

(Photograph on front cover) For Plain Fudge , simply omit the nuts in the above recipe. [1] 1⅛ cups equal 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons. [2] Pecans, walnuts, hazel nuts, cashews, etc. also can be used. Note : Drop a tiny bit of the hot mixture into a bowl of cold water. If it stays together in a soft ball and does not fall apart when you lift it out of the water with your fingers, then the Fudge has cooked long enough. Be sure to take candy off the heat while testing. Do not use ice cold water. GRAND TO SERVE AT A BIG HOLIDAY PARTY Big Bowl of Eggnog [3] ( placed in a wreath of holly or evergreens ) Small Slices of Quick Fruit Cake [3] Cheese Chips [3] Nut Fudge [3] Salted Nuts Holiday Crescents [3] [3] Recipes are in this book...

Ambrosia Floating Island

19 minute read

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Butterscotch Balls

9 minute read

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Holiday Crescents

22 minute read

(Photograph on front cover) Note : You’ll have perfect success with this recipe in any altitude up to 5,000 feet. If you live in a higher altitude, write for specially adjusted recipe, stating altitude at which you live and name of recipe....

Stuffed Dates

21 minute read

For Stuffed Figs or Prunes , steam 2 or 4 dozen dried figs or prunes over hot water until plump. Cut pocket in figs; remove pits from prunes, then fill with candy mixture. Roll in granulated sugar if desired....

Banana Nut Salad

16 minute read

[5] Salted, skinless peanuts, pecans, cashews, etc. can be used....

Hawaiian Sweet Potatoes

23 minute read

Note : Well drained, canned sweet potatoes also can be used. You will need ¾ cup mashed sweet potatoes for 2; 1½ cups for 4 and 2¼ cups for 6....

Cheese Chips

22 minute read

Note : You’ll have perfect success with this recipe in any altitude up to 5,000 feet. If you live in a higher altitude, write for specially adjusted recipe, stating altitude at which you live and name of recipe....

Baking Directions For Poultry and Meat

6 minute read

Note : Use a shallow uncovered baking pan and do not baste....

Potato Stuffing

46 minute read

4. Spoon lightly into cavity of poultry. Sew cavity together or secure with toothpicks laced with string. 5. Bake as directed in chart on opposite page. Note : For 3½-lb. guinea hen, use ½ of the recipe for 4½ to 5-lb. chicken; for 12 to 14-lb. turkey, double the recipe for 8 to 10-lb. turkey....

Holiday Sauce

21 minute read

6. Add to cranberry mixture; then chill thoroughly. 7. At serving time, whip chilled milk with cold rotary beater, or electric beater at high speed, until stiff. Fold into chilled fruit. Serve on fruit, plain cake, etc....

Easy Fruit Coffee Cake

44 minute read

8. Roll up like jelly roll. Start at one of the 15-inch sides for the large roll. 9. Put into greased shallow baking pan. 10. Cut gashes about 1-inch deep along both sides and about 1-inch apart. Cover with cloth wrung out of hot water. Let rise until doubled in size. Bake on center shelf of moderate oven (375° F.) about 25 minutes, or until brown. While warm spread with Pet Glaze (see index). Note : You’ll have perfect success with this recipe in any altitude up to 5,000 feet. If you live in a higher altitude, write for specialty adjusted recipe, stating altitude at which you live and name of recipe....

Coconut Kisses

23 minute read

4. When well mixed, drop 2 inches apart from a teaspoon onto well-greased and floured baking sheet. 5. Bake 20 minutes, or until lightly browned. Remove from pan while warm and shape into balls with fingers. [7] Diced candied pineapple can replace cherries. [8] For the coconut, use the bulk kind or that which comes in cans but not the frozen....

Mincemeat Cup Cakes

55 minute read

5. Beat vigorously 2 minutes with spoon or electric beater at medium speed. 6. Fill muffin cups only ⅔ full. Bake on oven shelf slightly above center 30 minutes, or until cakes shrink from sides of cups. If desired, spread while warm with Pet Glaze (see index). [9] 1⅛ cups equal 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons. [10] Use bulk or packaged mincemeat, cooked as directed on package. Note : You’ll have perfect success with this recipe in any altitude up to 3,000 feet. If you live in a higher altitude, write for specially adjusted recipe, stating altitude at which you live and name of recipe....

Fruit Candy

24 minute read

(Photograph above) 3. Mix thoroughly until milk is absorbed. Chill. Shape about a teaspoonful of the mixture into round or oblong patties. Decorate with shelled nuts or halves of candied cherries, or roll in chocolate decorettes or finely chopped nuts. Patties may also be studded with puffed rice, or strips of blanched almonds. Note : Pitted dates can be used for prunes and dried or pressed figs for apricots....

Eggnog

16 minute read

5. Chill. Sprinkle each serving with nutmeg if desired. [12] To use alcoholic flavoring for vanilla, use ½ cup for 1 qt. and ¾ cup for 1½ qts....

Pineapple Date Bars

1 minute read

11. When cool, cut in bars 1 × 4 inches. [13] 1⅛ cups equal 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons. Note : You’ll have perfect success with this recipe in any altitude up to 5,000 feet. If you live in a higher altitude, write for specially adjusted recipe, stating altitude at which you live and name of recipe....

Whipped Cranberry Dressing

18 minute read

8. Continue whipping until stiff. Fold into chilled cranberry mixture. Serve on fruit salads or wedges of lettuce....

Quick Fruit Cake

31 minute read

(Photograph on front cover) 8. Let stand in pan 5 minutes before removing. [16] If loaf pan is used, bake smaller cake 1½ hours and bake larger cake 2 hours. [17] Cut-up candied pineapple and cherries can replace half of the dates and raisins. Note : You’ll have perfect success with this recipe in any altitude up to 7,000 feet....

Pork Chop Dinner

23 minute read

10. Boil slowly and stir until sauce thickens. Serve with chops and apples. [18] If there is not enough liquid off corn, add water....

Cauliflower With Egg Sauce

18 minute read

6. Heat and stir over low heat. Do not boil. 7. Drain cauliflower mixture and serve with the hot sauce....

Bringing up a Baby?

1 minute read

The lovable little rascal calls for plenty of attention especially in the feeding department, doesn’t he? And you’ll be giving him the right kind of attention, when you give your baby Pet Milk in his formula. Pet Milk is right for baby, every way. Right, because it’s uniformly rich in all the important food substances of whole milk. Right, because it’s so very easy for baby to digest. Right, because it’s as surely safe in its sealed container as if there were no germ of disease in the world. Pet Milk is right, too, because it’s fortified with pure crystalline vitamin D—the very same kind of vitamin D that bright sunshine would provide for babies if they could get enough sunshine. It’s the combination of vitamin D and the calcium and phosphorus so richly supplied by Pet Milk that helps your baby to develop straight strong bones, sound teeth...