Cut out cooies, pre baking.
My dad was a farmer, and he had dairy cows. Around Christmas my mother would put in an order with the milk man, who picked up the farm's milk, for butter. On the next pick-up, the butter would be deliered. And the baking would begin.
Side note: after my dad sold his dairy herd, he took a job as the milk man, driving the truck to farms and picking up milk.
I have my mother's recipes, for sugar cut outs and for gingerbread, but her artistry in baking those cookies has eluded me. I've tried, probably almost every Christmas season, but the results are never right.
My mother had a few mishaps, like when a reindeer's hoof would break off or a sheet of cookies got too browned, but she ended up with many many pretty cookies.
This year I tried a shortbread kind of dough, without success once again. The taste and texture just aren't there. I'm not even sure that they are worth icing.
3 comments:
They look perfect to me!
At least you attempted to bake cookies! I did not. However, a cheesecake is in the oven and I'll pull from the freezer some gingerbread I made several weeks ago. Oh, then there's that mound of chocolate delivered by a friend whose family owns a candy/ice cream business. We have been the recipients of their generosity for many years. I"m sure any home made cookies will be a real treat!
I baked cookies for decades..not really into much of the icing etc... More so European style things my grandmother made. I never did try making my favorites which were deep fried. And I loved her poppyseed loaf. A spiral of poppyseed mixture in a buttery eggy bread. She came to America in her teens but was a pastry apprentice in Europe before getting on the boat.
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