Cookie Day 2023 and my two antique Recipes!

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Cookie Day was yesterday(Sunday), and flour was flying, laughter was ringing, and carols were humming in the background. We were only six this year...but maybe more fun than having 13 or so...LOL. And we made proportionally less cookies, which helped.

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If I look tired, it wasn't 

because I did all these cookies alone.

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Our stash of cutters got a work out -----

these are the newer Christmas ones...My husband is THE cookie cutter hoarder! 

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 I set up everything in the middle of our huge kitchen table. Sprinkles are put on the Lazy-Susan. 

This is the last year I will buy pre-packaged cookie icing. I will invest in more tips and bags and mix the icing myself with powder sugar. cream of tartar, and vanilla. Sure works better than the prepackaged icing, tastes better too.

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We went basic with the gingerbread this year and just white homemade icing, which sets up quickly.

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Cooling racks are a must when you are making tons of cookies. The guys rolled out, and the gals decorated.

I've used this recipe for 50 years or so.

I was so happy to find Brer Rabbit molasses this year, that has such a super taste. 

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These are my hubby's THICK Cookies---it's his grandmother's recipe so very OLD. We had the fifth generation making her cookies, yesterday! The recipe is probably older than that, too.

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Really cute decorating the girls did, we all cut back on icing---lol, I know you can't tell. 

Alvina's OLD RECIPE for Form Cookies.

I use unbleached flour and have substituted Crisco for half the lard...but the consistency changes. Upside these are delicious, hold well, and  are perfect for decorating or just sprinkling sugar on. 

You can leave out the egg white and the icing is fine and dries nicely with just water 

added with the cream of tartar.

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What's left to do this week---Klejner, Finksbro, Vaniller Kranse, Pound Cake, Pumpkin bread baked into gingerbread house forms-for gifts,  Peppernuts...and chocolate crinkles and coconut wreaths...I better get cracking, no elves to help with these! 

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Time Travel for the Holidays!

Hi, Dear Readers. I have been doing more than blogging this last few weeks. We had Thanksgiving and then slid into full blown Christmas prep---going through everything--jarring memories--and rearranging, culling, cleaning. I'll be able to post more soon.

An old 'memory' that popped up 

on my FaceBook from 7 years ago. 

We only have one grand girl. And from the beginning we always did things with her when she visited.

Here she is at just two all ready for making 

Christmas cookies.

We pretty much left her alone to do what she wanted on Family Cookie Day...where we make cookies with 4-5 families around our island and huge kitchen table.

She was very quiet, content in the high chair and busy. I'm always a believer it is the process that is to be enjoyed, and not the final result with children. 

No one paid her any attention as tray after tray of cookies went into the oven. Meanwhile, Grampa was giving her more flour and more 'child safe-no-fresh-eggs cookie dough'.

These were her mom's photos

Probably two hours later....

"OH, Dear....I have flour in my hair, and I'm all sticky..., I'm not sure I like this."

Like I said, it's the process....lol.

Everyone else was very busy, too! 

Do you have a favorite 

Family Holiday Group Do-Together?

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Family Cookie Day 2019

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This was 2019...and what I miss the most this year!

Originally Posted on Dec.12, 2018...but we are having cookie day on the 14th this year!

Quick Post---You know you are having fun when no one takes their phone out and takes photos.

I had to do these the day after, so this is only about 1/2 the cookies. Last Saturday, I set up our huge kitchen table with 3 leaves and 9 chairs...(we were 12 cookie baker/decorators) this year. The guys handled the rolling out and baking with help from or kid crew.

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The table was set with two big carousels of gathered/donated decorations/sprinkles/icing and some bowls for distributing, paper plates for decorating on. Paper toweling is a must---!

I make up a batch of icing in white, blue, yellow, red, green that gets hard for spreading, and then we use the commercial cookie icings for outlining, which honestly were fabulous and easy for little hands to work with.

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We used a (12 cup flour batch) of sugar cookie dough and (6 cup flour) gingerbread batch(those you bake really thin.) The sugar cookie recipe is from my husband's grandmother, the gingerbread is from an old Scandinavian cookbook. This makes more than enough cookies for five families.

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Everyone had their own style in decorating---some love lots of frosting and sugar, 

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others, just do outlines---the biggest hit were random eyeballs on everything...LOL. Orange was a new addition for snowman noses, but became foxes, mushrooms, duck, chicken, and bird feet.

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The cookies have to set up for a couple of hours before they can be packed away.

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New cookie cutters this year were a Unicorn which was very popular with the kid set,

and a 3 pc train---which no one could figure out what they were.---! 

RECIPE: Very Old (5 generations) and excellent.

THE most important part, gathering our family and friends together for FUN and MEMORIES even though no photos.

How are your memories coming for these holidays?

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Family Fun: Cookie Day with Sprinkles December 14,2019

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This post was originally done for last year....Trying to pull this off this year with the knee issues...but the crew will be here on Saturday and ...we know we will make tons of NEW cookies!

Quick Post---You know you are having fun when no one takes their phone out and takes photos.

I had to do these the day after, so this is only about 1/2 the cookies. Last Saturday, I set up our huge kitchen table with 3 leaves and 9 chairs...(we were 12 cookie baker/decorators) this year. The guys handled the rolling out and baking with help from our kid crew.

oldnewgreenredo

The table was set with two big carousels of gathered/donated decorations/sprinkles/icing and some bowls for distributing, paper plates for decorating on. Paper toweling is a must---!

I make up a batch of icing in white, blue, yellow, red, green that gets hard for spreading, and then we use the commercial cookie icings for outlining, which honestly were fabulous and easy for little hands to work with.

oldnewgreenredo

We used a (12 cup flour batch) of sugar cookie dough and (6 cup flour) gingerbread batch(those you bake really thin.) The sugar cookie recipe is from my husband's grandmother, the gingerbread is from an old Scandinavian cookbook. This makes more than enough cookies for five families.

oldnewgreenredo

Everyone had their own style in decorating---some love lots of frosting and sugar, 

oldnewgreenredo

others, just do outlines---the biggest hit were random eyeballs on everything...LOL. Orange was a new addition for snowman noses, but became foxes, mushrooms, duck, chicken, and bird feet.

oldnewgreenredo

The cookies have to set up for a couple of hours before they can be packed away.

oldnewgreenredo

New cookie cutters this year were a Unicorn which was very popular with the kid set,

and a 3 pc train---which no one could figure out what they were.---! 

THE most important part, gathering our family and friends together for FUN and MEMORIES even though no photos.

How are your memories coming for these holidays?

All the opinions and photographs in this blog are my own, unless otherwise designated. I have not been paid or reimbursed in anyway for my opinions, posts or any products shown or anywhere I shop.

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