With love...

In saucepan, melt:

1/2 c. margarine

Remove from heat and add:

1 c. brown sugar
2 c. oatmeal
1/2 tsp. baking powder

Press into ungreased pan to about 1/4 inch thickness.

Bake just until brown at 350 degrees.

It will harden as it cools.

With love...

You are accepted - as you are.
You are loved - for what you are.
You are respected - in spite of what you are not.

God appreciates you, if you can receive it.

David W. Augsburger in The Love Fight

Mix as for pastry:

10 soda biscuits (double)
1 c. brown sugar
1/2 c. margarine
1 c. flour
1/2 tsp. soda
1 c. cocoanut

Pat about 3/4 of mixture into 7x12-inch greased pan.

Make filling by boiling together:

1 c. sugar
2 tbsp. cornstarch
2 eggs, beaten
1 c. water
Juice of 1 lemon
Juice of 1 orange
1/4 c. butter

Spread over the base.

Top with remaining crumbs and bake at 350 degrees.

With love...

If we love, we cannot pity ourselves.

Eugenia Price

With love...

Boil for 5 minutes:

2 c. raisins
1 c. water

Cream:

1 c. shortening or margarine
2 c. sugar
3 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla

Add to raisins:

Creamed mixture above

4 c. flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. soda
2 tsp. salt
11/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. nutmeg
1/4 tsp. allspice

Mix well, drop on greased cookie sheet and bake.

With love...

There is no freedom without love and no love without freedom.

Eugenia Price

Mix together:

2 c. white sugar
2 eggs
1 c. margarine
1 c. molasses
2 tsp. ginger
1 tsp. soda
1 tsp. salt
4 c. flour

Form into small balls.

Place on cookie sheet and bake.

With love...

Even if you don't feel your love is important, give it anyway.

Eugenia Price

Beat together until smooth:

1 c. white sugar
1/2 c. margarine
2 eggs
1 c. sour milk .
1 tsp. soda
1/2 tsp. salt
21/2 tbsp. cocoa
11/2 c. flour

Bake at 350 degrees.

With love...

We begin to learn to love by practising.

Eugenia Price

Crumble:

2 c. flour
3/4 c. butter or margarine
1 c. sugar

Set aside 1 c. crumbs.

Mix remaining crumbs with:

1 egg
1 c. sour milk
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. soda
1 tsp. cloves
1 c. currants

Place in pan. Sprinkle with remaining crumbs.

Bake at 350 degrees.

Best served slightly warm.

With love...

Love is seeing another as precious, just as you know yourself to be precious.

David W. Augsburger in The Love Fight

Make base of:

3/4 c. flour
3 tbsp. sugar
Dash of salt
3 tbsp. cocoa
1/2 c. butter

Beat together:

2 eggs
1 1/2 c. brown sugar
1 tsp. baking powder
3 tbsp. flour
Vanilla
1 c. cocoanut
1/2 c. nuts

Bake at 350 degrees about 15 minutes.

Ice, if desired, with chocolate butter icing or Whipped Cream Frosting.

With love...

How do we go about learning to make use of God's love in the daily round? By beginning.

Eugenia Price

Soak for 2 hours:

1/2 C. poppy seed
1 c. water

Place in large bowl and beat till stiff:

7 egg whites
1/2 tsp. cream of tartar

Place in large bowl and combine well:

2 c. flour
1 1/2 c. sugar
3 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt

Add and beat until smooth:

1/2 c. oil
Poppy-seed-and-water mixture
2 tsp. vanilla
7 egg yolks
1/4 tsp. soda

Fold yolk mixture into whites.

Bake in ungreased tube pan for 50 minutes at 325 degrees. Then increase heat to 350 degrees and bake 10-15 minutes longer.

Orange Glaze:

Heat together:

2 tbsp. syrup
1 tbsp. oil

Add:

1 c. icing sugar (sifted)
2 tbsp. orange juice
Rind of 1 orange

Pour over cake. Gives a lovely tart flavour.

With love...

The God I am experiencing right now accepts me - weakness as well as strength, fear as well as confidence, anger as well as gentleness.

He loves the whole me.

He loves the whole you.

His love makes wholeness possible in its most complete form. As I know and experience the love of God, His acceptance reaches out to include both sides of me. "God knows the best and the worst about me," I can say. "And, what do you know? He loves me anyway."

David W. Augsburger in The Love-Fight

Beat well:

1 c. margarine
1 c. brown sugar
2 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. almond extract
1/2 tsp. salt
3 eggs

Add:

1/2 c. syrup
1/2 c. fruit juice

(the colour of this will determine to a great degree the lightness or darkness of the cake)

3 c. flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. soda

Stir into cake batter:

4 c. raisins
1 c. nuts
1 c. cherries
1 c. mixed fruit (which has been floured with 1/2 c. flour)

Place in lined pans and bake about 3 hours in slow oven (275 degrees).

With love...

If we practise love, we become loving.

Eugenia Price

Cream:

1 c. butter or substitute

Beat in well:

2 1/2 c. sugar
5 eggs

Add:

3 c. sifted flour
1/2 c. cocoa
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1 c. milk
1 tsp. vanilla

Beat till blended.

Spoon into greased and floured tube pan.

Bake approximately 1 1/2 hours in slow oven (325 degrees.)

Cool about 10 minutes and remove from pan.

Keeps well when wrapped in foil. Or glaze with butter icing. Pour over the top and allow to trickle down the sides.

With love...

Whatever we manage to relinquish to God as a loveoffering he returns to us in love...his love, the love that always chooses the best for us.

Eugenia Price

Cream:

1/2 c. butter
11/2 c. brown sugar
3 eggs

Add:

2 c. oatmeal
1 1/4 c. flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla

Lastly, beat in:

1 c. boiling water

Bake in large pan. Is delicious with butter icing.

With love...

Love frees. Real love always leaves the loved one free to be himself, herself. His best self. Her best self.

Eugenia Price

Stir together:

11/2 c. flour
11/2 c. sugar
3 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt

Beat in:

1/2 c. salad oil
7 egg yolks
3/4. c. cold water
1 tsp. vanilla

Measure into large bowl:

1 c. egg whites (about 7)

1/2 tsp. cream of tartar

Beat until stiff.

Gently fold egg yolk mixture into beaten egg whites.

Bake in tube pan at 325 degrees for 55 minutes, then at 350 degrees for 10-15 minutes.

Cool upside down on rack.

Orange Chiffon: add 2 tbsp. grated rind

Chocolate chiffon: reduce flour to 1 1/4 c. and add 1/4 c. cocoa

Maple Walnut chiffon: add 1 tsp. maple extract and finely chopped walnuts

With love...

...love is never involved in any habitual use of another human being.

Eugenia Price

Bring to rolling boil:

1/2 c. syrup
1/2 c. sugar
1/2 c. margarine
4 tbsp. cocoa
1 tsp. vanilla .

Pour over 8 c. puffed wheat and press into buttered pan.

With love...

Love never restricts, never binds. Love always rejoices in the growth and forward step of the loved one.

Eugenia Price

Beat together:

1 c. salad oil
1 c. sugar

Add:

3 eggs, beating in one at a time

Add:

1 1/3 c. flour
1 tsp cinnamon
1 1/3 tsp. soda
Walnuts, if desired
2 c. grated carrots
Pinch of salt

Bake at 350 degrees. Delicious with Cream Cheese Icing.

With love...

...Jesus loving just says I will, now, then, in between and all around.

Bob Benson

Line muffin tins with pastry.

In small saucepan melt:

1/3 c. butter (no substitute for best results)

Remove from heat and add:

1/2 c. brown sugar
1/2 c. syrup
1/2 c. or more currants or raisins
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1/4 tsp. salt
1 egg. slightly beaten

Bake at 400 degrees until brown and bubbling well.

This will fill about 20 tarts.

With love...

Love is being honest and open about your demands. Love is cancelling unfair demands. Love is freeing others to live and grow.

David W. Augsburger in The Love-fight

Melt in saucepan:

1 c. margarine

Remove from heat, add and beat together:

2 c. white sugar
1/4 c. cocoa
4 eggs

Add:

11/2 c. flour
1 tsp. salt
2 tsp. vanilla

Bake in cookie sheet at 350 degrees.

No icing. Just "plain" good.

With love...

Real love must learn to relinquish even what is dearest to its heart - especially what is dearest to its heart.

Eugenia Price

Melt in large saucepan:

2/3 c. margarine

Add:

11/2 c. sugar
2 eggs
1/2 c. cocoa
11/3 c. flour
Dash of salt
1 tsp. baking powder

Drop well apart on greased cookie sheet.

Bake. They're crisp and good!

With love...

Real love concerns itself first of all with the welfare of the loved one, not the welfare of itself.

Eugenia Price

Boil hard for 5 minutes:

2 c. sugar
1/2 c. margarine
1/2 c. milk
1/2 c. cocoa

Remove from heat and add:

1 tsp. vanilla
Dash of salt
3 c. oatmeal
1 c. cocoanut

Immediately drop by spoonfuls on wax paper.

With love...

Love will accomplish anything that it undertakes.

A.B. Simpson

Beat until fluffy:

2 eggs
11/2 c. sugar

Add

1 can fruit cocktail (juice and all)
1/2 tsp. salt
2 1/4 c. flour
1 1/2 tsp. soda
1 tsp. vanilla

Pour into large cookie sheet.

Sprinkle with cocoanut and/or nuts.

Bake at 350 degrees for approximately 25

While still warm, ice with the following glaze:

Mix well over heat (do not boil):

3/4 c. sugar
1/2 c. butter
1/4 c. evaporated milk
1/2 tsp. vanilla

These are lovely and moist and make a large pan full. Especially nice for taking to special "do's."

With love...

Love never restricts, never binds. Love always rejoices in the growth and forward step of the loved one.

Eugenia Price

Melt in saucepan:

1/2 c. margarine

Beat in by hand:

1 c. brown sugar
1 egg
1/2 c. flour
1 tsp. vanilla
2 tbsp. cocoa
Walnuts. if desired

Bake in 8-inch pan at 350 degrees.

With love...

...love doesn't have to be repaid by this Saturday or any other for that matter.

Bob Benson