pg. 18, advertisements Cogdell's 822 Austin Ave Waco, Texas Jacobson's Food Market and Locker Plant 19th & Reuter Waco Phone 864 Leon Jacobson, Owner Frank Smith Produce 314 Jefferson Phone 5995 Compliments Walter R. Stewart Plumbing-Heat-Sprinkler Contractor 2121 Lasker Phone 1895 pg. 19 Nutty Nuggets 7/8 cups flour 1/2 cup margarine (1 cup minus 2 tbsp.) 1 cup chopped pecans 2 tbsp. sugar 1/8 tsp. salt 1 tsp. vanilla extract confectioners sugar (Something for your bon-bon dishes) Method: Cream margarine; add sugar gradually, creaming until light and fluffy. Add flour, nuts, salt, flavoring; stir until thoroughly mixed. Dush hands lightly in flour and form into balls, size of small walnuts. Place on lightly greased cookie sheet. Bake in moderate oven (350 degrees F. for approximately 10-12 minutes) or until lightly browned. Remove from oven, cool slightly, about 3 minutes. Roll in generous amounts of powdered sugar. When cold, roll again in powdered sugar. Makes four dozen balls. (These cookies are sweetened by the rollling in powdered sugar.) -Ruth D. Knight, Dallas, Texas ***************** Ice Box Cookies 1 cup shortening 1 tsp. baking powder 2 cups brown sugar 1/2 tsp. soda 2 eggs unbeaten 1/2 tsp. salt 1 tsp. vanilla 1 cup chopped nuts 3 cups flour 1 cup chopped dates Mix well and form in rolls. Leave overnight in ice box. Slice thin and bake. -Perl Patterson pg. 20 Congo Cookies 2 3/4 cups flour 3 eggs 2 1/2 tsp. baking powder 1 cup nuts 1/2 tsp. salt 1 pkg. Nestles semi-sweet 2/3 cup shortening melted chocolate pieces 2 1/4 cup brown sugar vanilla (1 lb. pkg.) Spread on cookie sheet, when cool cut in squares. -Katherine Flynn ****************** Chinese Chews 1 cup chopped dates 3/4 tsp. baking powder 1 cup chopped nuts 1/4 tsp. salt 1 cup sugar 2 eggs 3/4 cup flour Mix dry ingredients. Add nuts and dates. Then the eggs well beaten. Spread as thin as possible on cookie sheet. Bake in a slow oven about 15 minutes. Cool, and cut in squares. -Kenner Lee Milam ******************** Orange Pecan Ice Box Cookies 1 cup butter 1/4 tsp. soda 1/2 cup brown sugar 2 tbsp. orange juice 1/2 cup white sugar 1 tbsp. grated orange rind 1 egg 1/2 cup nuts 2 3/4 flour Cream butter, add sugar, egg, orange juice and rind. Beat until smooth and stir in flour and soda sifted together. Add nuts. Shape into rolls in waxed paper. Chill over night, slice thin. Bake 350 degrees oven about 15 minutes. -Laura Bell Lennard Pg. 21 Cocoanut Puffs 3 egg whites 1 cup sugar 2 1/2 tsp. cornstarch 2 cups cocoanut 1 tsp. vanilla Beat egg whites stiff and beat in cornstarch mixed with sugar. Cook in double boiler until thick around the edge, stirring all the time. Remove from heat add cocoanut and vanilla. Drop on buttered tins, bake 15 minutes in slow oven, about 250 degrees. -Myrtle Dodd ********** Date Nut Roll 1 lb dates pitted 2 cups sugar 1 cup chopped pecans 1 cup sweet milk Cook sugar and milk until it forms a soft ball. Add chopped dates and stir until dates area melted. Add chopped nuts, roll in a wet cloth, when hard, slice. -Ellen Griffin ************* Russian Rocks 1 cup butter 1 cup oatmeal 1/2 tsp. salt 2 cups flour 1 1/2 cups brown sugar 1/4 tsp. soda 2 eggs 1 lb dates 1 cup nuts 1 tsp. vanilla Cream butter and sugar. Add beaten eggs, oatmeal, flour, salt and soda, chopped dates and vanilla. Bake 400 degrees F. -Ellen Griffin **** Looking at my weatherbug's temp on my tool bar, a red 104, the idea of baking cookies is as dead as a doornail, not to mention to even dare think it one must be crazy as a bed bug!! I am talking nooooooooo motivation at all!! Go buy oreo's!!! :c) Teresa G.O.S.P.E.L. - God Offers Sinful People Eternal Life