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…

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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…

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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…

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