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When you purchase a pumpkin for your Halloween jack-o-lantern, buy an extra one and make these light-yellow cookies.

Yield: Makes 4 dozen.

• 1 cup sugar
• 1/3 cup shortening
• 2 eggs
• 1 to 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 1 cup pumpkin, steamed, drained, and mashed
• 2-1/2 cups flour
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon ginger
• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1/2 cup raisins
• 1/2 cup chopped nuts

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Grease cookie sheets. Cream sugar and shortening, beat in eggs and vanilla, and stir in pumpkin. Sift dry ingredients and stir into pumpkin mixture. Add raisins and nuts. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto greased cookie sheet. Bake about 15 minutes.

Would you like to re-create those pumpkin spice mixtures that are often for sale in gift shops? Here is the right proportion of ingredients.

Pumpkin Spice Mix Recipe

Mix the following in a nice gift jar:

• 1/3 cup ground cinnamon

• 1 tablespoon ground ginger

• 1 tablespoon ground nutmeg or mace

• 1-1/2 teaspoons ground cloves

• 1-1/2 teaspoons ground allspice

Add a gift tag with these instructions: "For pumpkin pie, add 1 to 1-1/2 teaspoons of spice mix to your other ingredients."

TIP: Sprinkle a teaspoon of pumpkin spice mix into your carved pumpkin before lighting the candle.

This year, when you hollow out that Halloween pumpkin, save the seeds to make a cool and colorful necklace. Here's how:

1. Separate the seeds from the pulp and rinse them well in warm water.
2. Spread the seeds out on paper towels to dry completely.
3. When the seeds are dry, color them with felt-tip markers, leaving some uncolored if you wish.
4. Make holes near the center of each seed, using a big needle or an awl and a block of wood.
5. String the seeds with a large-eyed needle and fine elastic, using 125 to 130 seeds for a necklace and far fewer for a matching bracelet. (Measure around your neck or wrist before cutting the elastic, allowing a little extra to tie the finishing knot.)

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