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Another homemade Christmas gift that the Victorians enjoyed was making dough ornaments. They looked like cookies, but they were not meant to be eaten. The "recipe" is easy:
1 Mix 3 cups of flour, 3/4 cup of salt and 1-1/4 cups water.
2 As you mix the ingredients together, take care that the dough remains very stiff. If the dough becomes sticky while you’re kneading it, add flour to it.
3 Coat a rolling pin with a light dusting of flour and roll out the dough as you would if you were making edible cookies.
4 Use cookie cutters to cut out the shapes you want for your ornaments. (Popular shapes in the nineteenth century were angels, animals and children.)
5 Cut a hole in the top of each ornament so that you can pass ribbon through it later when you want to hang it.
6 Once everything is cut out, bake your ornaments at 250 degrees Fahrenheit for two hours. Do not start painting (most people today paint with acrylics) until the ornaments are completely cool.
7 Poke a ribbon through the hole at the top and hang it on your tree or wherever you wish.
Source: Jessica Jewett Online