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Holiday Cookie Exchange
Now is the time to start thinking about and planning your Holiday Cookie Exchange! One thing I always look forward to as we get closer and closer to the holidays is a Holiday Cookie Exchange! Being Jewish, I didn’t grow up celebrating Christmas, but pretty much everyone I knew and worked with did. Working at…
Hints for Packing, Freezing, and Storing Cookies
Back again with more hints from Grandma Bess’ archives. As I mentioned in the Hints and Short Cuts for Baking Cookies blog, Grandma Bess, while teaching a cooking/baking class at the Wausau Technical Institute way back in 1964, prepared and gave several hand-outs to her classes regarding her best tips and tricks for baking. This…
6 Basic Cookie Types
The Cookies by Bess cook book is filled with over 200 cookie recipes and my Grandma Bess categorized each recipe into one of 6 Basic Cookie Types. I know this because my Aunt Suzie sent me the book Bess used to identify each cookie type. How fun to see my Grandma’s writing next to each…
Hints and Short-Cuts for Baking Cookies
It hit me as I was reading through the old scrap books my father sent me last summer. My Dad got the “pack rat” gene from his father, my Grandpa Abe! I was looking for the notes Grandma Bess put together for the classes she taught at the Wausau (WI) Technical Institute. I found the…
Cookie Difficulty Ratings
Hello Cookie Bakers!! You may have noticed that a Cookie Difficulty Ratings is given to each recipe in my cookie blogs. From experience, I can truthfully say, there have been too many times I’ve read a cookie recipe thinking it was going to be a lot easier than it actually was, or I started baking…