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Holiday Food Fashion A supplement of the & 2 Friday, November 27. 2015 HOLIDAY FOOD & FASHION Mt. Airy News It’s not Christmas without cookies By Bill Colvard Filling: (Joyce Jarrard notes: This is an [email protected] ¾ cup ground nuts – pecans or easier version of my sister-in-law walnuts Carole’s recipe. People go ape over Christmas is the time for 1 egg these.) cookies. It’s the one time of the ¾ cup brown sugar, packed year when the humble little cookie 1 tbsp. melted butter Brownie Base: gets as much attention as its Dash of salt 1 box of brownie mix – the kind more glamorous cousins, pies and ½ tsp. vanilla with the Hershey’s Syrup packet cakes. There are just so many of Mix well and spoon into dough Bake according to package them around. Add to the bounty cups. Bake at 350°F. for 15 directions in a large brownie pan – by baking some cookies. For full minutes. Reduce heat to 250°F. for 15” x 10” x 1” effect, bake them with children 10 minutes. Allow to cool. Remove (You’ll be adding eggs, oil, and and let their youthful enthusiasm carefully from pans. Sprinkle with water per the directions.) inspire you. Whether you’ve got powdered sugar. (A fl our sifter or a children, grandchildren or have to tea strainer works well.) Frosting Ingredients: borrow a few neighbor kids, you’ll 2 cups powdered sugar be glad you did. Peanut Butter Brownies (Tollhouse) ½ cup butter or margarine (1 stick) Following are some cookie Joyce Jarrard 4 tbsp. Crème de Menthe (from a recipes published in the Mount (Joyce notes: I mailed these to liquor store) Airy News in the past year. Try one my son, Sean at Christmas time Mix powdered sugar with ½ cup margarine and crème de menthe. or try them all. You’ll be glad you when he was aboard ship. He said Bill Colvard | The News Spread on cooled brownies in pan. did. these were a big hit.) Pictured here are a selection of cookies baked by Joyce Jarrard. Most of the recipes Chill in refrigerator. 2 ¼ cups unsifted fl our are here. Chocolate Fudge Cookies 2 ½ tsp. baking powder Lisa Slawter ½ tsp. salt Glaze Ingredients: 2 cups sugar 2/3 cup butter, softened pan. Bake at 350°F. for 35 minutes. 1 cup of fl our 1 cup chocolate chips (6 ounces) 1/2 cup milk 2/3 cup smooth peanut butter Remove from oven, sprinkle top ½ tsp. baking soda 6 tbsp. butter or margarine 1 stick butter 1 ¼ cups sugar with remaining (1 cup) chips. ½ tsp. ground cloves In a small saucepan, melt Boil 2 minutes. Remove from 1 ¼ cups brown sugar Wait 5 minutes until soft. Spread 1 tsp. cinnamon chocolate chips with 6 tablespoons heat and add 3 cups oatmeal, 1 1 tsp. vanilla evenly. Cool completely. Cut into 2” Combine fl our mixture into margarine. Cool. (I have put the cup coconut, 4 tablespoons cocoa 3 eggs squares. Makes 35 brownies. butter mixture. saucepan in a bowl full of ice in the and 1/4 teaspoon vanilla. Drop on 1 – 12 oz. package semi-sweet Then add 1 cup of raisins freezer, to cool it quickly.) waxed paper using teaspoon. chocolate chips, divided Oatmeal Raisin Cookies Drop by rounded teaspoons Spread the glaze on top of Preheat oven to 350°F. In small Joyce Jarrard onto greased cookie sheets. Bake the crème de menthe mixture. at 350°F. for 12-15 minutes, until Nut Cups bowl, combine fl our, baking powder Cream together with a mixer: Refrigerate until the glaze hardens. and salt, set aside. In large bowl, ¾ cups butter or margarine golden brown. Cool just slightly, Cut with a sharp knife. Joyce Jarrard and then remove carefully with Dough: combine butter, peanut butter, 1 cup brown sugar sugar, and vanilla extract, and beat ½ cup granulated sugar a metal spatula. (Beware - they White Chocolate Blend 1 stick butter with a crumble easily.) Cool on paper 3-ounce package of cream cheese until creamy. Add eggs one at a 1 egg Macadamia Nut Cookies time, beating after each addition. ¼ cup water towels. Joyce Jarrard adapted these from a with a mixer until creamy. Makes about 5 dozen cookies Add 1 cup sifted fl our and mix Gradually beat in fl our mixture. 1 tsp. vanilla Southern Living Cookbook well. Stir in 1 cup (1/2 bag) chocolate Combine dry ingredients in a ½ cup butter or margarine, Divide into 24 small balls and chips. Spread batter evenly into separate bowl: Crème de Menthe Brownies well greased 15” x 10” x1” brownie 3 cups uncooked oats Joyce Jarrard press into very small muffi n tins. See COOKIES | 6 Celebrate the Season Visit us for Specialty Items like: Rib Roasts, Pork Grown Roasts, Rolled & Tied Filets and traditional favorites Chile Rojo from Holiday Grapes, Candies, Homemade Cake Orders, to Deli Trays, Hams & Turkeys. www.eatchilerojo.com Give a Mount Airy Meat Center Gift Card for a gift that is sure to please! Get Our App! Get Free Food! 336-786-2023 Our app is full of useful info, fun features, and exclusive deals for customers like you. 133 Old Buck Shoals Rd., Mt. Airy, NC 27030 It’s our way of showing our appreciation. Check it out today! Owned & Operated by: Gray & Kathy Gwyn 1296 Newsome St., Mount Airy NC 27030 • 336-789-7801 00801498 USDA INSPECTED DAILY 00801627 Mt. Airy News HOLIDAY FOOD & FASHION Friday, November 27. 2015 3 Boho chic is closer than you think 2015’s biggest trends available in Mount Airy By Bill Colvard [email protected] Contrary to popular wisdom, fashion forward gifts are not as hard to find in Mount Airy as most people think. A stroll down Main Street and its adjacent avenues yields some interesting finds. Back in February when Claudia Nichole toppers make an easy gift to buy since there is no the catwalks of New York size consideration. They look very festive with holiday plaids. and Paris were overflowing with bohemian chic, the fashionistas of Mount the store is the top seller in Charlotte where the candles Airy paid attention and the world for Lenny & Eva, a are manufactured. The the boutiques downtown line of jewelry that relies on scented candles have names are awash with tassels and customer personalization for that evoke the local area fringe, or as Amy Slate, its full effect. The Addition with names like “Autumn owner of Scarlet Begonias, hits two trends on the head Leaves,” “Happy Fall, Y’all” says, “Tassels and fringe. here with personalization and “Mount Airy.” Scented Fringe and tassels.” Indeed, also being key of late. votives are $11.50 and larger Photos by Bill Colvard | The News Slate has any number of gift The bracelets are based scented candles are $29.50. Amy Slate, owner of Scarlet Begonia, 433 N. Main Street, shows off long silk tassel necklaces, a hot trend items adorned with either or around a “sentiment” They are festively packaged for holiday shopping. both. which is a metal plate with with a bow on top so as not Tassels and fringe adorn a quote engraved on it. to need any additional gift everything from silk tassel Customers select the quote wrapping, making them an the deepest snow that Mount necklaces from Kitzi that are that speaks to them or excellent last minute gift. Airy might dish out. Bed Stu glamorous enough to make to their relationship with Probably because this boots can make the lady in any Miss Fisher fan drool to the recipient of an item year’s holiday merchandise your life very happy for $200 Big Buddha hobo bags with intended as a gift and build was being designed last to $325. a wide selection of tassels, the bracelet from there. The winter while New York was For an easy gift giving fringe, beading and other emotional connection that is buried in snow, a key item experience, Cathy Harrison boho chic detailing. The built can be very powerful. for fall has been stomping at The Addition suggests Kitzi necklaces go for $45 “We cry every day,” says boots or boots suitable for a cashmere topper. Totally and the large bags clock in at store manager Jenna Puckett. stomping around in the snow. on point with the boho chic under $100. Lenny & Eva is based in Really high boots are an trend and yet classic enough To accompany the Tennessee and all of their extension of that trend. The to remain stylish for years to boho trend for long, long merchandise is made in the higher the snow, the taller come, the toppers by Claudia necklaces, Slate suggests USA. Pieces range from a boot you will need would Nichole are essentially an “arm party.” Slate $14.50 to $120 with $50 seem to be the reasoning. wraps that don’t have sizes defines “arm parties” for being about the average price The Addition is on point so the gift giver needn’t the uninitiated as stacking for a complete bracelet. with this trend as well. be worried about knowing multiple bracelets, the Puckett is particularly Their popular line of boots, the correct size. Wraps are more the merrier, on both proud that The Addition Bed Stu, are made from 100% cashmere and cost wrists, a trend that remains makes a great effort to beautifully soft, fragrant $139.50. Claudia Nichole mandatory for the stylish merchandise items that are leather, are handmade and cable-knit cashmere sweaters woman. as local as possible with feature a sole made from are $196.50 and would be a Around the corner from manufacturing done in the recycled Goodyear welt.