Memory taste
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susandennisI tried Mom's cookies again today. With the tweaks I had planned.
She made 873 bascillion of these cookies every December. And a whole bunch of other cookies as well as gingerbread houses. All for gifts. Corporate gifts for Daddy's work. Friend gifts. Gifts for those who has no gifts. It was kind of amazing what she did.
We kids were allowed to help decorate the iced cookies. We were not allowed to eat them. Just decorate them. We were sometimes allowed to eat broken ones. Unless we broke them on purpose. There were never enough broken ones, I'll tell you that. I never got my fill.
When this latest batch had cooled enough, I tried one. I took one bite and instantly felt like I should hide the rest so I wouldn't get caught! They taste exactly like Mom's. I'm so delighted.
They are a very simple cookie. 98% of the you reading this would take a bite and think meh. I did not ice these. I did brush the egg yolk+water over them just to see if that's what she did. (It is.) But the taste of these simple cookies is just making me so happy. I can finally get my fill!!
Oh and while I was rolling in good karma, I hunted on Amazon for better cookies/baking pans that fit my little oven. I found them. And a couple of other things. I have a return tomorrow and I'll wait until get that money back. And then I got an email with an Amazon card for $55 for a study I did!! Covered my new pans nicely. They will be here Friday.
Mom's cookies
240 g flour
150 g sugar
1/2 cup butter softened
2 eggs
1.5 tablespoons lemon
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
cream sugar and butter for a long time, make sure they are one. add in eggs, lemon, cinnamon and mix well. then add in flour bits at a time. Hold out a bit to flour the counter for rolling out.
chill for at least 30 mins - roll out and cut - roll pretty thin
400 degrees 9 mins - they should be browning around the edges and white-ish on top
Her icing (which I did not do)
2 egg whites
whip those whites until they are stiff and then add in sugar a little at a time as much as it will take or to taste. the icing should peak on its own. spread it on the cookies and decorate.
She made 873 bascillion of these cookies every December. And a whole bunch of other cookies as well as gingerbread houses. All for gifts. Corporate gifts for Daddy's work. Friend gifts. Gifts for those who has no gifts. It was kind of amazing what she did.
We kids were allowed to help decorate the iced cookies. We were not allowed to eat them. Just decorate them. We were sometimes allowed to eat broken ones. Unless we broke them on purpose. There were never enough broken ones, I'll tell you that. I never got my fill.
When this latest batch had cooled enough, I tried one. I took one bite and instantly felt like I should hide the rest so I wouldn't get caught! They taste exactly like Mom's. I'm so delighted.
They are a very simple cookie. 98% of the you reading this would take a bite and think meh. I did not ice these. I did brush the egg yolk+water over them just to see if that's what she did. (It is.) But the taste of these simple cookies is just making me so happy. I can finally get my fill!!
Oh and while I was rolling in good karma, I hunted on Amazon for better cookies/baking pans that fit my little oven. I found them. And a couple of other things. I have a return tomorrow and I'll wait until get that money back. And then I got an email with an Amazon card for $55 for a study I did!! Covered my new pans nicely. They will be here Friday.
Mom's cookies
240 g flour
150 g sugar
1/2 cup butter softened
2 eggs
1.5 tablespoons lemon
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
cream sugar and butter for a long time, make sure they are one. add in eggs, lemon, cinnamon and mix well. then add in flour bits at a time. Hold out a bit to flour the counter for rolling out.
chill for at least 30 mins - roll out and cut - roll pretty thin
400 degrees 9 mins - they should be browning around the edges and white-ish on top
Her icing (which I did not do)
2 egg whites
whip those whites until they are stiff and then add in sugar a little at a time as much as it will take or to taste. the icing should peak on its own. spread it on the cookies and decorate.
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Date: 2021-08-31 11:02 pm (UTC)Is the lemon…the juice, or the flesh of the lemon?
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Date: 2021-08-31 11:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2021-08-31 11:33 pm (UTC)Nice! I'm glad you were able to recreate the cookies! My sister and I have tried for years with some of my grandmother's recipes and we still haven't figured some out.
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Date: 2021-09-01 06:30 am (UTC)That moment when your flavour memory was duplicated sounds so pleasing.
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Date: 2021-09-01 08:12 am (UTC)This reminds me of when I first started making a cookie recipe of my grandma's. It's a jam filled cookie, almost pie-like in appearance, and the dough is close to a shortbread so not very sweet. Tasting it definitely brought back memories of Christmas cookie baking extravaganza :)
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Date: 2021-09-01 10:17 am (UTC)I understand the desire to recreate the perfect biscuit. We grew up in the army and if Dad was on guard duty he was issued army rations. He used to return with packs of two rock hard oaty biscuits from the ration pack. I have never found anything close to them. Perfect sweetness and would survive multiple dunkings in tea.
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Date: 2021-09-01 01:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2021-09-01 03:06 pm (UTC)They sound delicious