The Daily News from Huntingdon, Pennsylvania • Page 19

THE OAltf NjWS. Try Your Hand At Bani Box, Clothespin Doll Directions, Recipes From Greenfield Village Family Fun, Create Pretty Gingerbread House This recipe and directions from Greenfifeld Village at Dearborn, Michigan, are for a 11 by 17 gingerbread house. Following the diagrams for three 11 17 baking sheets, cut out templates as designated from stiff cardboard or thin sheet metal, such as tin. It is npcessary to use templates in cutting out the pieces of gingerbreadjatherthan a free hand meth'od because each piece must match exactly. Once gingerbread is cut there's plenty of scrap for "testing" the flavor, by the way make sure the rest of the ingredients are near at hand, especially the icing.

This will act as cement in construction. For Mobility! Set the base piece on a cutting board or a large piece' of heavy cardboard so the house can be moved from place to place when it is finished. Ice the bottom of one end back of the house bottom and end of a side wall; fit them together and place them carefully on the base; Ice the bottom and two. sides carefully. You may want to add a-small support stick of gingerbread inside.

Hold the pieces together until the icing has hardened. You may want to use rubber bands, but be sure your gingerbread is hard enough, so the rubber bands don't cut into the house. 2 More Walls Repeat the procedure for the other two walls. After the walls and icing are secure, ice the top edges of the end walls and place the roof over them. The two roof pieces should meet, but not overlap.

Again hold in place until the icing is hardened. You may now decorate your house as you wish. If necessary, make more icing. When completed, sprinkle "snowdrifts" of sugar around fora final touch. GINGERBREAD Ingredients: 1 Tbs.

butter, softened; c. all purpose flour; 6 Tbs. double-acting baking powder; W- tsp. ground ,1 tsp, ground cloves; tsp'. nutmeg; ground car- damon; tsp.

salt; cup h6ney; c. sugar; 'A c. butter; one-third c. fresh May your Christmas tree be gay with decorations, and your home be i bright with warmth laughter! Sincere greetings from all of us at your HUNTINGDON COUNTY COOPERATIVE EXTENSION SERVICE '4 aluting all our grand patron? and hoping w4lm steam Qt 0ee your way, We appreciate your kindness. FOSTER'S lemon juice; 1 Tbs.

finely grated lemon peel; 1 egg and 1 egg yolk. i Brush the softened butter evenly over three 11 17 inch baking pans. Jelly roll pans will do nicely. Sift six cups of flour, baking powder, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, cardamon and salt together into a large mixing bowl. In a heavy 4 or 5 quart saucepan, bring honey, sugar and butter to a boil over high heat, stirring with a large spoon until the Sugar is dissolved and the butter melted.

Remove pan from heat and add lemon juice and peel, cooling mixture to room temperature. Beat in two cups of the spice- flour mixture, add egg and egg yolk and beat in remaining spice flour mixture. Knead until dough is smooth. Spread on the three pans, roll out as evenly as possible. Bake in preheated 325 degree oven for 35 minutes or'until''c'ake and top cool about five minutes, then, using tern-, plates, cut into required shapes.

Let gingerbread harden. ICING For support and decoration Ingredients: 2 egg whites; 2'-i confectioners sugar; candies and cookies for decorating house and 1 2 cups Is, ROOF HALF POST 1 POST ROOF HALF i POST Christmas is a time tor special projects to make the season more colorful, two simple craft items can be made from inexpensive materials. Band boxes made of-cardboard and wall paper remnants make ideal personal gift wrapping. Clothespin doll ornaments add a homemade touch to. the Christmas tree.

BAND BOXES Band boxes were introduced in the 17th century to hold riffs, c611ars and hats. These simple cardboard boxes provided a practical service and brought color into the home. Bright wallpaper was used to cover the boxes. They would be stacked in room corners and on shelves to bring design and color to To make band boxes, you need 11 ply posterboard, light weight Bristol board, masking tape, newspaper for inner lining, wallpaper, scissors and glue. To make a medium sized box, draw a 6'ii 8 inch rectangle on the posterboard.

Round off the corners and cut out for the bottom of the box. Measure the circumference and allow an extra inch for overlap. Dally News! Using this measure, cut a piece of the Bristol board for the sides of the box, making it about 5 inches wide. Newspaper is used for lining. Cut strips newspaper and fasten with stick glue.

Along one edge, strip on masking tape, leaving half of the of the tape exposed. Attach the Bristol board side to the bottom with the masking tape. Overlap the sides by about an inch and tape. To cover the sides of the box, cut a strip of Wallpaper about 30 inches long and inches wide. Attach with stick glue, leaving the extra half inch at the top.

When the sides are completely covered, snip around the top at one inch intervals, fold down and secure with glue. For Cover For the cover, draw around the box onto the posterboard and cut out. The cover should be slightly larger than the bottom. For the sides of the cover, cut a strip of Bristol board abobt 28 inches long and l' a inches wide. Attacft in the same way as the bottom and sides of the box.

When attaching the wallpaper to the cover, be sure to match the design with the side of the box. Cut the paper large enough so It can be folded down onto the sides. Snip the edges, fold down and fasten with glue. To cover the side of the cover, cut a 1M. inch wide, 30 inch long strip of wallpaper and attach with glue: CLOTHESPIN DOLLS To make a clothespin doll ornament, you neetf a wooden clothespin', a white piece of lace ribbon, needle, thread, glue, two small pieces of scrap material, pipe cleaner and a black marker.

Draw, a circle, with a hole in the center, of inch diameter on material and cut out. Draw a rectangle 1 inches on material and cut out. Secure With Glue Slip the circular material over the top of the clothespin and secure with glue. Wrap the other piece of material around the clothespin under the little ball on top. Take pipe cleaner and wrap around the n'eck.

Bring around the front to form arms. Glue a piece of string on the back in the shape of a loop to Hang on the tree. Take a piece of lace ribbon and wrap around the doll to form a shawl. Secure with glue in front and leave arms free. Tape lace around legs of clothespin to form leggings.

Color the bottom black to make shoes. sugar additional decoration. In large bowl, beat egg whites until slightly thickened. Sift the sugar in about cup at a time beating thoroughly. A stiff icing should be formed.

Place in pastry bag for use. At Dearborn Museum Features Miniatures This Christmas, Henry Ford Museum at Dearborn, Michigan, is celebrating the world of miniatures-. "Toys for Young and Old: The World in Miniature" will be the Christmas exhibit, through Jan. 4. Six doll houses, over a thousand miniature objects and miniature steam engines and model trains are on exhibit to delight children and adults.

Six fully furnished doll houses will form the center of the exhibit. These include Clara Ford's Richmond Hill, a scale model of the Fords' Georgia mansion; a scale model of a Detroit house in the early 20th century and a 1920's mansion complete with Art Deco furnishings and tiny people models. Minutely detailed tables, chairs, bureaus, lamps, ice boxes, stoves and sinks are displayed in all the houses and in display cases. All objects are from the Museum's permanent collectionof toys'; Trie miniature'' Warn engineg are operating. Some of these working engines can be held in the palm of a hand.

Model trains are displayed in this exhibit and in a special exhibit on model railroading on the Street of Shops. Also along the Street of Shops, special crafts demonstrations will be given. The crafts include pewter, wood carving, Christmas cookies, band boxes, china plates, quilting, wheat weaving, wreaths, toys, doll making, needlecrafts, gingerbread houses, quilling and glass blowing. XMAS DECORATIONS AID CENTERPIECE Homemade holiday decorations are easy to make, and can be as elegant as the store-bought kind. For Instance, make a little "tree" with loops of varicolored ribbon and use at the peak of your 6ig tree.

Or, twist pipe cleaners around rose stems, Insert the flowers in a styrofoam cone, cover the cone with wide ribbon, and brighten the whole thing with spray- on glitter. It makes an unusual centerpiece for youp Christmas table. BEST WISHES Merrily, we chime in with Santa to send greetings and thanks to our loyal friends, Robert D. Krause Son Stihl. llomellte.

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