MARMALADE CHEESE
DAINTIES

1 cup flour
14 cup shortening
% cup Philadelphia Cream cheese
1 tablespoon cream
Salt

Cream together and roll as for pie. Cut
in small circles and place % teaspoon
marmalade on circle and fold over. Bake
at 450° F. for 8 minutes.

—BERNICE MCALLISTER

MARSHMALLOW BALLS

¥Y pint whipped cream
1% teaspoon vanilla
1 Ib. marshmallows

Whip cream and soak marshmallows
overnight. ‘Take out and roll in graham
wafer crumbs and place in refrigerator
overnight.

—SALLY BIRMINGHAM

MARZAPAN BALLS

1 cup fine cocoanut

1 cup chopped cherries

1 cup fruit sugar

1 cup chopped almonds (not
blanched)

Put all through food chopper, mix to-
gether with 1 egg. Roll in small balls
and roll in fruit sugar.

—CONNIE HAMMONDS

MATRIMONY CAKE
(Rich)
114 cups flour
14 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
14 teaspoon salt
1 cup butter
1 cup brown sugar
114 cups oatmeal or rolled oats put
through chopper

Sift dry ingredients; rub in butter with
tips of fingers; add sugar and oatmeal.
Spread one half crumbs in greased shal-
low pan 8”x14”, pat lightly to make
smooth. Cover with cooled date filling,
then with remaining crumbs and bake at
350° F. 30 to 35 minutes. Cut in squares
while hot and allow to cool in pan.

FILLING

4 lb. dates, chopped
4 cup brown sugar
Y cup water.
Cook until thick.
—Eva DILL

MELTING MOMENTS

14 cup butter

1 heaping tablespoon icing sugar

1 cup pastry flour
Cream butter thoroughly and add sugar
and flour gradually. Place teaspoon on
cookie sheet and bake in slow oven about
15 minutes. Put two cookies together with
butter icing between.

—RENE RICHARDSON

MERINGUE JAM COOKIES

14 cup sugar
6 tablespoons butter
1 egg yolk
YA teaspoon vanilla
1 tablespoon cream
14% cup cake flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
Y4 teaspoon salt
Tart jam or jelly
Cream butter well, add sugar and beat
until light and creamy. Beat in egg yolk
and add vanilla and cream. Sift flour,
measure and sift with salt and baking
powder. Add to butter mixture and chill
dough for 1 to 2 hours. Roll dough un-
til it is very thin. Cut into oblongs;
spread the cookies with tart jelly or jam.

MERINGUE
1 egg white
5 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
6 tablespoons chopped nuts

Cover with the meringue made up of the
egg white beaten stiff and sugar added
very slowly. Nuts and cinnamon are folded
in. Bake on greased tin at 350° F. for
12 minutes.

—GLAD REED

MYSTERY CAKE

Y4 cup butter
1 cup flour
Mix and pack in pan 9”x9”,
14 cup cocoanut
Few raisins
114 cups brown sugar
1 cup chopped walnuts
2 tablespoons flour
14 teaspoon baking powder
14, teaspoon salt
2 eggs
Vanilla
Cook in top of double boiler till partly
done. Pour over first mixture and bake
at 350° F. about 20 minutes. Top with
orange icing.
—DoROTHY OSBORNE