Jess's Recipes

1 cup flour 1/2 cup salt 2 tsp cream of tartar 1 TBS oil 1 cup water food coloring Mix together and stir over low heat in aluminum pot until mixture pulls away from the sides of the pot. Turn out on wax paper and knead until smooth. Add coloring of about 10 drops to whole batch or divide batch and color as desired. Store in air tight container.

1/2 cup Elmer's white glue 1 1/2 cups of water 1/2 tsp of borax powder two bowls large spoon 1. Pour the glue into a bowl. Add 1/2 cup of water to the glue and stir well. 2. Pour one cup of water into the second bowl. Add borax and stir well. 3. Slowly pour the glue mixture into the borax mixture while stirring. 4. Keep stirring until you notice some of the mixture forming a stringy blob. 5. Not all the mixture will become part of this blob. Remove the blob. You can throw out the unmixed glue water later. Pinch and smoosh it with your hands until it stays together like a smooth, oozing ball of slime. 6. Have fun playing with your slime. When you are done, put it in an airtight container and save it to play with again. Caution: Be sure to have an adult help you and don't get the ingredients in your eyes or mouth. It is a good idea to wash your hands when you are finished making or playing with your slime.

You can double the recipe and freeze the extras 1 1/2 cup water 1/2 cup vegetable oil 2 eggs 1/4 cup crunchy peanut butter 2 TBS vanilla 2 1/2 cups whole wheat flour 3/4 cup unbleached flour 1 cup cornmeal 3/4 cup rolled oats Preheat the oven to 400F. In a medium bowl, mix together the water, oil, eggs, peanut butter and vanilla. In the bowl of an electric mixer, combine the dry ingredients. Pour the wet mixture into the dry ingredients and beat with an electric mixer until smooth. (I usually mix the wet with hand mixer and then add the dry and continue mixing - the dogs don't complain). Roll the dough into a ball and place it on a sheet of floured wax paper. Roll or pat out the dough to a thickness of 1/4 o 1/2 inch. Cut the dough with a cookie cutter (preferable one shaped like a dog biscuit) and place the biscuits on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 20 minutes. Turn off the heat and leave the biscuits in the oven for one hour. (I just bake them until they are startin...