Bake Up Some Cookies For Family Fun (NAPSA)—There’s lots of reasons parents are baking with their kids these days. The delicious result is of course on the list. But more importantly, baking with children is a great way to spend time with them and to teach them things at the same time youre all having fun. Baking cookies with anyor all of your children is a naturally fun activity. Cookies are portable, sweet and fun to make. They can be madein stagesif time is tight— prepare the dough in the evening and bake them the next morning. Older children can read the recipe anddirect adults on what steps to take. Small children can roll the doughinto balls and flatten it with a fork, similar to making peanut butter cookies. There’s enough fun to go around for everyone. What makes your cookies even better is to add corn starch to the dough. In fact, many recipes for baked goods from the early 20th century used corn starch in conjunction with flour. Bakers found very early on that corn starch gave biscuits, muffins, cakes, shortcakes, pie crusts and most notably cookies a finer texture and more tender crumb when compared to recipes using flour alone. Recipe books produced then by the experts at Argo and Kingsford’s Corn Starch bear this out. In fact, Argo, established in 1892, has offered their customers cookie recipes since its very early years. Here’s a recipe for Lemon Love Me TenpbeER—Baking up family fun in the kitchen is a great way to spend time with your children. Shortbread Cookies that’s simple and delicious and should makefor a batch of family fun. Lemon Shortbread Cookies 1% cups Argo or Kingsford’s Corn Starch 2 cups butter or margarine %s cup powdered sugar 1 teaspoonfinely shredded lemon peel % teaspoon vanilla 2 cupsall-purpose flour Makes six dozen Preheat the oven to 350F. In a large bowl, beat butter until softened. Add powdered sugar, beat until well combined. Add lemonpeel andvanilla; beat well. In a medium bowl,stir together flour and corn starch; add to mix- ture and beat well. Roll dough into 1-inch balls (kids will love this). Place on ungreased cookie sheets. Press tines of a fork atop each ball to make subtle design. Bake about 15 minutes or until bottoms are lightly browned. Cool on wire racks. Other recipes for Argo Corn Starch are at www.argostarch.com.
