December 10, 2008
Cookies
The year is ending so quickly. Before the earth makes it final orb on 2008, I hope to find a minute to be still and look back. It seems to have all begun and ended so quickly. I am trying to stay far away from the “holidays” and get as close to Christmas as I once was. I hope to get in the kitchen soon and fill Christmas tins up with Christmas candies and cookies. One of my favorite recipes is from my Jewish mother in law, butter cookies. The wonderful thing about this recipe, besides the taste, is that she wrote a little letter on the back of the card. There is no date, but it was in the early eighties because she talks only about my two oldest sons and says how she misses them. Apparently Jon had said “I love you Bubbe” over the phone and she was filled with the joy grandmothers feel. I keep this hand written memory and connection to her in a muddled basket filled with memories from my kitchen, mostly hand written memories. I take them out this time of year and I remember and although it makes me sad and lonesome because many, like Bubbe, are no longer here, in a twisted kind of way, it makes me happy that those people were once here for Christmas, long enough to make a memory.
Bubbe’s Butter Cookies
1 cup butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
½ t. salt
2 cups sifted flour
1 t. vanilla
2/3 cups broken nuts
2/3 chopped white raisins
1 cup shredded coconut
Cream sugar and butter till light and fluffy.
Beat in eggs singly.
Add sifted dry ingredients and mix well.
Blend in vanilla.
Add fruit and nuts.
Chill dough 1 hour or more.
Drop by teaspoon onto greased cookie sheet.
Bake 10 minutes in 350* oven.
"Love to all of you, Mom"
Here is my Christmas Goose card I am sending out this year.
Till next time
p.s.
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