This is NOT a "Scrooge Year" when all the preparations seem like chores rather than delights! I have enjoyed baking in my tiny kitchen and sharing my cookies and cake with family and friends, Post Office customers and neighbors! I have pulled from my recipe stash cookies with history: the Pecan Sandies, otherwise known as Mexican Wedding Cakes here in California, that recipe says Toni Vataliano on the top - she was my BYF leader long, long ago in a land far away! The Date-Walnut-Oatmeal Cookies that says Dottie as the source; which one has been lost in the Sands of Time. The Biscotti that Millie Wise learned to make in a class at an Italian Cooking School on one of her trips to Italy. It calls for 2 tablespoons of Brandy; having none I hiked to a neighbor's and "borrowed" some in return for some of the final product! Dates stuffed with a walnut like Mom used to make, but I dipped mine in melted white chocolate rather than the sugar she rolled hers in.
Best of all was the German Gingerbread from my Great, great, great Grandmother - she was my Grandfather's Grandmother - I hope I got the correct number of greats there! The recipe calls for TWO cups of molasses and FILLS my mother's stainless steel lasagne pan. I took it to a family supper and due to an excess of desserts it was barely touched! Tom suggested taking it to church the next day and it was a huge success at coffee hour, even if the whipped cream ran out!! That was the Joering side of the Warner family tree - my maternal grandfather, whose name is born by my brother Walter.
The packages are wrapped, Kathleen's is on its way to VA, all is well and Christmas is just around the corner! Don't have a chimney to hang the stockings, but not expecting any coal as our heat is propane!!
Stay warm, stay healthy, and be thankful for your many blessings. THAT is the secret of a successful life!
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