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| WEEK 16 SACHET 2 pieces of fabric, each 3x4" pins, scissors, ruler, thread, sewing needle, spoon, potpourri, 5" piece of ribbon Place fabric squares together, with the pretty sides together. Use straight pins to pin around the squares on two long and one short side. Cut an 18" piece of thread, thread needle and knot the end of the thread. Backstitch along the 3 pinned sides, 1/4" from the edge. When the 3 sides are sewn, tie a knot under the fabric close to the last stitch. Cut off extra thread. Unpin fabric and turn the bag insideout. Fill it 1/4 full with potpourri (Try drying your own flower blossoms for this). Tuck the top, open edge inside about 2". Tie the sachet closed with a ribbon. Done! GINGER SNAPS 2 Cups flour 3 t. ground ginger 1 tsp. ground cimmanon 2 tsp. baking soda 1/2 tsp. salt 3/4 Cup butter, softened 1 cup sugar 1 egg, beaten 1/4 cup molasses sugar for coating Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix dry ingredients. In separate bowl, mix wet ingredients. Stir in dry mix. Wash and dry your hands. Roll dough into balls about 1" dia. Roll balls in the coating sugar. Place on cookie sheet about 2" apart and flatten each with the bottom of a glass. Bake 10-12 min or until tops are cracked. 4 dozen. CANDIED ORANGE PEEL 4 oranges water sugar Wash oranges thoroughly. Quarter fruit and remove insides. Put peel in a saucepan with enough water to cover it. Boil 10 min. Drain, keeping liquid in a bowl. Allow peel to cool. Cut peel into thin strips. Put the liquid in saucepan, measuring as you go. Add 2 cups sugar to each cup of liquid. Boil this mixture 5 min. Add the peel and cook until it is tender and you can almost see through it. There wil not be much liquid left and it will be very sticky. Remove peel from pot and spread on waxed paper. Dry completely on the counter. Store in airtight container. Makes a wonderful, different gift! GAME: CORN DARTS 1 dried corn cob cut into 4 equal parts (your darts) 4 2" nails with large heads clay, white glue, 12 feathers (3 each dart), markers to decorate. Hollow out the centers of the dried corn cob. Fill in hollows with clay. Stick large nail into the clay so about half of it, including the point, stick out. Push the 3 feathers into the top of each dart. glue to secure them. Let dry. For a target, mnake a circle of rope or draw on the sand with a stick. |
| WEEK 17 This week's menu can make a meal: chicken pudding and cranberry muffins. Th sewing project is to make a pincushion (or Beanie Baby bed for today's use!) FRIENDSHIP PINCUSHION 2 pieces fabric, each 4"x6". needle & thread Lay fabric together with pretty sides facing eachother. Sew as you did last week's sachet, only this time you will fill the inside with cotton balls, fold in the top edges, pin, and sew the little pillow closed. In Colonial days, girls would also sometimes embroider a name or design onto the top fabric before sewing the top to bottom or filling. You could add tassels to the corners to make it more fancy. CHICKEN PUDDING 2 Tbs. butter 2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken breasts 2 cups water 1 tsp. salt Butter to grease casserole dish 1 1/2 cups flour 1 tsp. salt 1 1/2 tsp. baking soda 3 tsp. butter 3 eggs 1 1/2 cups milk Melt 2 T. butter in skillet over medium heat. Add chicken breasts and brown both sides. Put water and 1 tsp. salt in skillet. Reduce heat and simmer, covered 30 min. Grease casserole dish. Place chicken into the dish. Preheat oven 375 degrees To make batter, mix flour, salt, baking soda. Melt 3 Tbs. butter. Beat eggs with milk. Stir melted butter into this mix. Then add flour mixture. Beat smooth. Pour batter over chicken in the casserold dish. Bake about 40 min, till the batter puffs up and turns golden brown. CRANBERRY MUFFINS Spring in the forest provided plenty of berries for the colonists. The early settlers names cranberries "bear-berries" because the bears loved to eat them! Most berries picked by settlers were dried or sugared to preserve them for winter use. They were dried, pounded into a hard paste, and then cut into squares to be chewed like candy. The fruits were also boiled with sugar to make jellies. Berries were used for breads, muffins, little cakes, and also used to make ink and to dye yarn and fabric. 2 Cups flour 1/4 cup sugar 3 tsp. baking powder 1/2 tsp. salt 1 egg, beaten 1 cup milk 1/4 cup butter, melted and cooled 1 cup fresh washed cranberries Preheat oven to 350 degrees. (Remember how colonists tested an oven's temperature? Look a couple weeks back if you've forgotten.) Mix all dry ingredients. Now mix separately all wet ingredients. Mix wet into dry and moisten. add berries and blend gently. Put paper baking cups into muffin tins. Fill 2/3 full. Bake 20 min or till lightly brown on top. Makes 10-12 muffins. |
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