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For the first time ever, you're about to learn Granny's secret
ingredients to make the very best cooked clay-dough.
1 cup table salt
2 cups white flour
2 cups water
3 teaspoons of Cream of Tarter
1 Tablespoon of Cooking Oil
1 teaspoon Mouthwash
2 Tablespoons Hand Lotion
6-12 drops food coloring or coloring paste

    Use a wooden spoon to work with, and put water, salt, oil and lotion together in pan to warm. Raise it to medium heat when you slowly add and stir in the dry mixture, until it is the consistency you want. If you think it needs more flour or water- wait -add it after you're done. Then, add mouthwash. (Use kind kids like to smell.)  Empty the mixture onto a covered surface (old place mats or plastic tablecloths work great) and divide into sections to color. Make pinch-pots out of the dough and put the drops of food coloring into the center of the klay.  Fold over and knead the klay until you've got the color you want.
    Formations can be dried, or baked at 200 degrees.
    This klay keeps for years, sealed in plastic bags or containers.

Granny hauls out the garlic press, forks, combs, the meat tenderizers, frosting tubes and  tips, and stencils in addition to the cookie cutters and candy moulds for klay holiday ornaments.  Garlic presses make great Santa-beards or angel hair, and stencils can be used to make flat ornaments to paint or decorate - add beads, seeds, or cut-outs from cards.  You can use straws to poke holes for ornaments or embed a wire hanger before it drys.  Spray finished items with hair spray  - (try the glittery kind!) - or other sealing sprays - watery egg whites work too, if you're baking them. 
    Granny's Granny would add a cup of dried flower petals from roses, daffodils or yarrow to her dough for sachets, and beautiful scented beads, which she dried on her kitchen window sill.

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- something's always cookin' at Granny's!

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