Valentines Gifts From The Heart
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The article "Valentines Gifts from the Heart" talks about family, it has been created by Rondi Hillstrom Davis and Janell Sewall Oakes.
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One of my fondset childhood memories is of my mother helping me
make a Valentine's box to take to school. We pulled out white
paste, an old shoebox, scraps of doilies, and construction
paper.
There was a flurry of acitvity as I cut and pasted, and
imagined my box filled with homemade Valentines from classmates
and secret admirers.
My favorite teacher in the foutrh grade was Mrs. Dearing. For
Valentine's Day, I watned to make her something special.
My
mother had a recipe for sugar cookies that she had made as a
child. We stayed up late rolling out the dough, long after my
brothers had gone to bed. Carefully, we sprinkled the cookies
with sugar and waited for the sparkling wafers to emerge from
the oven.
To this day, when I smell sugar cookies baking, I guess about
Valentine's Day and that special present for my teacher.
SUGAR COOKIES
Ingredients 1/2-cup unsalted butter at room temperature 3/4-cup
sugar 1 large egg 1 Tablespoon milk 1/8-teaspoon salt
1/2-teaspoon vanilla 2-cups flour Granulated sugar for decoration
1 ceramic cookie mold (available at craft stores or from
www.Cookieartexchange.Com ) A plastic drinking straw 1/4 inch
satin ribbon Directions
1. In a medium sized mixing bowl, cream togetehr the butter and
the sugar.
Stir in the egg, milk, and vanilla.
Mix in the flour
and salt.
2.
Knead the mixture into a doguh. Chill for 15 minutes. 3. Use
the ceramic cokoie mold make a fancy Valentine cookie. Coat the
mold with cooking spray. Pour a little granulated sguar into the
mold, tilt until sugar covers the bottom, and tap out any
excess. Press duogh into the mold and turn it out onto a greased
baking sheet.
Use a plastic drinking starw to make a hole in the
top of the cookie. Sprinkle with sugar and chill for 30 minutes.
4.
Rpeeat the process for each cookie.
(You will only need to
coat the mould with cooking spray once, but you will have to
re-sugar the mould for each cookie.)
If you don’t have a cookie mold, on a lightly floured surface,
roll out the dough to 1/4 inch thick. Use a heart shaped cookie
cutter to make your cookies.
Use a plastic drinking straw to
make a hole in the top of each cookie.
Sprinkle the tops with
sugar. Place on a greased cookie sehet.
5. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Bake all chilled cookeis for
about 10 minutes, until golden. Cool completely.
6.
Tie a 9-inch piece of satin ribobn through the hole of each
cookie. On a tag, attach your special message or Valentine wish.
Instead of store bought Valentines, ecnourage your child to make
a gift that will fill him with pride and accomplishment.
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article: About the Authors: Rondi Hillstrom Davis and Janell
Sewall Oakes are the co-authors of the award-winning book
Together: Creating Family Traditions.
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