I've decided that I wanted to have more "old fashioned" Christmas cookies for my cookie offerings this year so I went searching in some of my oldest cookbooks. I found in my Grandmama's old Watkins Cookbook (copyright 1943) a couple of cookies that spoke to me of Christmas. One is orange drop cookies and the other is spice drop cookies. The orange drop cookies have been a hit for the last 2 years so I tried the spice drop cookies.
The recipe calls for citron - I'd like to see a show of hands of those who had ever heard of citron. Anyways - after internet research and my knowledge of useless things increasing I found out that it is one of the strange fruits found in fruitcake therefore my local Publix grocer had it with all of the unnaturally colored pineapple and cherries. The verdict is that I think it is a keeper recipe.
We will make gingerbread again this year and I think I will forgo the sugar cookies with the requisite decorating mess. Snickerdoodles and peanut blossoms will round out our Christmas cookie offering this year.
I enjoy baking - and I love sharing the bounties of my kitchen with others so what a great opportunity this time of year brings me.
I've decided to start a Christmas cookie book that I can pass on to Savannah - I've purchased a composition book that will contain my favorite cookies - it should have plenty of pages where Savannah can add to it before she hands it on to her daughter.
Merry Christmas and Happy Cookie Baking to all!!!
Friday, December 14, 2007
Christmas Cookies
Posted by irvy at 11:00 PM
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I will never forget our first Christmas there six years ago and you had us over to decorate a BUNCH of sugar cookies. That is a "sweet" memory with some dear friends. Some great things do come out of your kitchen... I don't think you have ever made anything I didn't enjoy eating!! Savanah will love that!
Still loving the kitchen time, I see. But don't eliminate the sugar cookies! No, no, no. The key is, you don't decorate them. Because you don't bake them. Because you eat the dough straight from the bowl. Yep, that's the ticket!
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