Most of the following recipes require a quart jar, large or small mouth opening. I
find though a large mouth works easier to get the ingredients in.
Besides a quart jar with lids, you will need a large rubber band. A piece of
material 8x8 square. Ribbon to decorate. After filling the jars, place the material
on the lid and put the rubber band around it to secure it in place. Tie with
decorative ribbon and tie the recipe card to the ribbon for the directions on how
to bake the ingredients. If you have a printer, print out the tag onto a colorful
piece of paper or onto adhesive paper.
When putting in the ingredients, make sure to pack them down tightly. If you have
loose ingredients like nuts, M&M, raisins, etc. make sure they are the next
ingredient on top of packed brown sugar. If the next layer is to be white sugar or
flour, the white sugar or flour will seep through the nuts, M&M, etc some what.
Also when using cocoa, wipe inside of jar before adding another ingredient to keep
jar looking nice. Have fun and give the filled jar to a friend!

SOME IDEAS TO MAKE YOUR GIFT OF COFFEE OR COCOA MIX MORE SPECIAL:

Get some plastic spoons and dip the spoon end only in melted chocolate chips;
sprinkle with non-pareils or colored sugar sprinkles if desired. Let the chocolate
set up. Wrap a spoon or two (depending on who the gift is for) in a piece of
cellophane and tie with a pretty ribbon. Include this with a gift jar of cocoa mix
or coffee mix.
Make some homemade biscotti. After biscotti is cooled, dip half of each stick into
melted chocolate chips (or melted vanilla candy coating also known as chocolate
bark). Let chocolate set up. Wrap and add as you would the above spoons. Sew up a pretty gift bag from a festive fabric of your favorite holiday calico or
even a shiny lame to wrap your gift jar in. Decorate with twigs of silk holly and a
pretty ribbon
Place the wrapped jar of mix in a basket and include the recipe if desired so the
recipient may make more when their supply runs out. Add a bag of home made cookies, a couple of coffee mugs and a CD of holiday music.

SOME IDEAS FOR MAKING YOUR GIFT OF COOKIE MIX MORE SPECIAL:

Wrap your jar in a fabric bag as described above, but add a cookie cutter or a
wooden spoon to the jar instead of the chocolate spoons. Place the jar in a mixing
bowl and add a new digital timer.
Place a jar of cookie mix and a jar of cocoa mix in a basket together to give to a
young family with children.
Put cookie mix in a cookie jar, wrap the jar containing the mix with a couple of
new kitchen towels so it won't rattle inside the cookie jar.
Make a basket with three different cookie mixes in it and give to a family with
school aged kids who will be on vacation during the holidays.

MASTER MIX:

Master Mix

4 cups unsifted, all purpose white flour (spoon lightly into cup and level off)
1 cup butter flavor or solid white shortening
1/3 cup double-acting baking powder
1 cup nonfat dry milk powder
4 cups whole wheat flour
3 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons salt
1. Into a large bowl, sift together 4 cups white flour, the baking powder, sugar
and salt. This removes lumps and helps mix ingredients.
2. Cut in shortening with 2 knives, pastry blender, or fingers until it looks like
coarse oatmeal.
3. Stir in the dry milk.
4. Stir in the 4 cups of whole wheat flour; mix well.
5. Store in covered container at room temperature.
Yield: 11 cups. Keeps about 2 months. For longer storage refrigerate or freeze.
Notes:
To measure Master Mix: stir lightly and pile into cup (do not shake) and level off.
You may use less whole wheat flour and more white flour if you wish. Just be sure
the total flour used is 8 cups.
Variations
Margarine or Butter Master Mix. Reduce salt to 1 1/2 teaspoons. Use 1 1/4 cups
margarine in place of shortening. Choose a margarine which lists a liquid vegetable
oil as first ingredient for more polyunsaturates. Keep refrigerated. The Master Mix
can be used to make many dishes easily. Unlike a purchased mix, this homemade mix
allows you to choose your own combination of ingredients. The recipe may be doubled
if desired.
The Master Mix is lower in fat than some but gives very good results. Sugar has
been reduced in some of the recipes, but other ingredients have been used to
enhance flavor. Thus in banana bread only 1/4 cup of sugar is used but more banana
is called for than in traditional recipes.
Simple meals and leftovers can be sparked up by adding a homemade hotbread or other
food made from the Master Mix.
How to Use Dried Eggs in the Master Mix recipes If you have dried eggs on hand you
can use them in the Master Mix recipes instead of fresh ones. The table below shows
how to reconstitute the dried eggs. If you prefer, you may add the dried eggs to
the dry ingredients and the water to the liquid in the recipe.
Dried Egg Substitutions
Dried Eggs +Water=Eggs
1/4 cup + 1/4 =cup1
1/2 cup + 1/2 =cup2

Note: Use the dried eggs only in recipes requiring thorough cooking.

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