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Kitchen Tip : Using a pressure cooker saves up to two-thirds of the cooking time, saves energy, and preserves the goodness in your food.


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Diet info

The low-cal diet

In a nutshell, the low-cal diet states that if you plan to lose weight, the important thing to take in less calories than your body requires.

Definition of a calorie?
A calorie is a measurement of the energy provided by food. The food calorie is the the energy required to increase the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree centigrade at normal atmospheric pressure. If a food has more calories, then it will gives you more energy to use when it is converted.

Low calorie food types include celery, carrots, apricot, steaks and burgers, and eggs.













Dorothys Easy Do Butter Cookies Recipe
Dorothys Easy Do Butter Cookies Category Baking Recipes 
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Ingredients And Procedures

2 1/3 c All purpose flour

1 c Powdered sugar

1 c Soft butter

1 l Egg

1 1/2 ts Vanilla

1/2 ts Salt

In large mixing bowl, cream together butter and powdered sugar. Add remaining ingredients, mix at low speed until dough is formed.Cover bowl and chill for several hours.When ready to make cookies, you may tint dough with food coloring if desired. To make cookies: you may shape into 1 in.balls and roll in colored sugar. You may flatten balls and decorate. You can roll out dough and cut with cookie cutters. Or as I do, load dough into cookie press and extrude into various shapes. Decorate cookies as desired. Bake on ungreased cookie sheet at 375 degrees for 10-12 minutes.Cookies will be soft and harden as they cool. -----

 
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