Today there may be painting

My Mom used to make these wonderful cookies at Christmas. Plain and flat - cut out in shapes. Then she iced and decorated them. But a few, mostly the chicks, she painted bright yellow even before she baked them.

The cookie recipe itself was the mystery. It was not a sugar cookie but it had no strong flavor. My wonderful brother managed to procure the recipe for me last night! Turns out it is flour, butter, sugar, eggs, lemon and cinnamon. How weird! (The icing she used was sugar and egg whites which is why, probably, she had so much yolk for painting!)

The icing was delicious and the sprinkled decorations fun. BUT I think I'm going to paint mine. Yep. I'm going to give them a try today. I may not get to the painting until tomorrow because the dough needs to live in the fridge for a while before you can even roll it out. But once it's rolled, I think yolk painting will be my thing.

The Mariners are playing an afternoon game today. And I have a not-too-long list of around the house todos. And, happily, no reason to leave said house. The numbers are up again.

is there an ugly cookie contest??

Trust me, this is not a camera problem. These look just as bad in person.



And they taste only marginally like my Mom's cookies.

And while they are not the best cookies I have ever had, they are pretty darned good. Half the batter is still in the fridge. Wonder how long it will stay good? I suspect quite a while.

There's lots of tweaking I can do and will. Oh and the egg painting... 1. turns out I gave all my brushes to Goodwill. I finally found one in the toolbox. It's a little small for the job. 2. purple food coloring in egg yolk comes out brown. 3. lime green turns dark green. Not that it matters. Plain old yolk works. I need to thin it out a bit, I think, with water.

I'm not unhappy with today's work.

I do need to rearrange the kitchen and create some Space For Baking Shit. I can't decide where is best. But, I do think a purge of some more shit is quite possible.

Not today. Maybe tomorrow.