Baking

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After I finish writing this, and hopefully before it rains, I gotta get to the store.  I need a few provisions and then I'm getting my cookie on.

Y'all know I'm a bit old school and one of my old school treasures is a cookbook my mother had from her high school home economics class.  I don't know what it is about this cookbook but on e-bay this one sells anywhere from $45-$100 depending on condition.  The one I have the cover is gone from; that happened years ago; and a few of the pages are missing, but all in all, it's an awesome cookbook.

I bought another copy of this book on e-bay a while back and suggested to my sister that we ought to go in halfsies and buy my mom one.  My sister thought she'd never use it.  Last year, my mom walked out of the house with my complete one and I still have hers.  Fair trade.  My mom has been so good to June and I.

Anyway, in this cookbook, there is this great picture of nothing but racks and racks of cookies that I have always wanted to make.  They look so good, so today, I'm fixin' to get my cookie on and make some of them.  OK, I'm gonna make a lot of them, but Christmas cookies might be the only gift there is this year.

I was going to make divinity and maybe caramels too, but apparently, you shouldn't make candy on a rainy day.  So it's cookies.

Anyway, here's what they should look like when I'm done.  I'm not counting on them actually looking like this when I'm done but you'll get the general idea.  I also need to say that the picture is of a copyrighted page from said cookbook and a) I'm not using their material for commercial gain and b) it's their photo not mine.

They look pretty good on paper, don't they?

I'm not making all of the cookies on the page.  I can't afford the shell molds for those cookies, but they're available.  Pricey, but available.

I tried making the square cookies before, too.  The bottoms burned badly.  I mean discolor the cookie sheet badly.  I might try them again tomorrow because the dough has to chill overnight at a reduced temperature and with some parchment paper on the cookie sheet.

Might.

Well, that's about it for me today.  Gotta shop.  Gotta bake.  Gotta cook.  It's the holidays, you know?




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