Grandma bakes cookies for Alfred Packer

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Oh my.

One's got to be careful with propane stoves, though.

Grandma:

hippywife  (1000+ posts)        Thu Dec-24-09 05:56 PM
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So, Bill talked me into making cookies the other night. (Three pics.)

He did help, too, because he knows how tedious my gran's nut cookies are to make, but they are really worth the work when you get to pop these little babies in your mouth.

The recipe is:

1 stick of butter, softened
1 8 oz. bar of cream cheese, softened
1 cup of flour
1 t. salt
Walnut pieces (breaking them up before you start rolling the dough really helps)

Beat the butter and cream cheese together well. Add the salt to the flour and add to the butter mixture. Form into a ball and chill for at least an hour.

Roll the dough very, very thin using powdered sugar on your surface instead of flour(as you can probably tell, I didn't roll it thin enough.) You want a light, slightly crispy cookie. Cut into very small rectangular strips.

after which a photograph of something

Place a small piece of walnut on one end and roll nice and small and tight.)

after which a second photograph of something else

Bake at 350 until bottoms are golden brown. (As you can also see each of us had a different interpretation of "roll small and tight."

after which a third photograph of something different

Allow to cool completely...very, very cool and shake in a small brown bag full of powdered sugar.

It doesn't seem like they would be anything special but they are my dad and Bill's number one favorite cookie. They are pretty darn tasty with that cream cheese and salt in the dough and coated in powdered sugar.

We are sitting here in the midst of a storm of heavy sleet and ice, that has just converted to snow. We aren't going anywhere for days. So, I'll also be making fruit cake and pizzelles this weekend, no doubt. Even tho we don't really celebrate this holiday, we still love the taste of the traditional foods associated with it.

grasswire  (1000+ posts)      Thu Dec-24-09 06:23 PM
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1. what an interesting cookie!

I've never seen anything quite like that with a nut rolled up in dough. The dough is basically the same as that for tassies, and that is a nice thing.

Do you know the origin of the recipe?

hippywife  (1000+ posts)        Thu Dec-24-09 06:30 PM
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2. I sure don't.

They have been a traditional Christmas cookie on the Italian side of my family for as long as I can remember.

They really should be smaller than the ones in the pic. I usually end up getting frustrated and sending Bill away from the table. So I had him take the pics. Even tho the dough wasn't rolled as thin as I like, I did flatten the pieces out before I rolled the nut up in them.

What are you up to tonight?

grasswire  (1000+ posts)      Thu Dec-24-09 09:01 PM
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3. picking crabs

that's for dinner

crab in some sort of a sherry cream with artichoke hearts that I sauteed in butter, Meyer lemon juice and minced red onion, and some rice. Mix it all up together, bake for a few minutes to brown.

I think I'll watch old movies on TCM tonight to busy myself. I'd rather do that than remember all the people who filled my happy childhood memories who are no longer on the planet. Yanno?

I haven't finished that library book yet. I could work on that!

hippywife  (1000+ posts)        Thu Dec-24-09 09:28 PM
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4. That sounds delicious!

And, ya, I do know. There's a whole generation of my family I would love to be able to see again. They were so much fun and at the same time, the glue that held it all together.

Enjoy your peace-filled evening. Enjoy you.

Okay, Grandma's last post was about 9:30 p.m. Christmas Eve.

Has anybody seen any news from northeastern Oklahoma yet, about a massive propane tank explosion late last night?

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**I'd rather do that than remember all the people who filled my happy childhood memories who are no longer on the planet.**

**There's a whole generation of my family I would love to be able to see again. They were so much fun and at the same time, the glue that held it all together**

Like....a generation that believed in GOD and family values? Sad. They just don't get it do they?

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hippywife  (1000+ posts)        Fri Dec-25-09 04:25 PM
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4. We are having

 Edited on Fri Dec-25-09 04:25 PM by hippywife

an roasted duck, homemade harvard beets, jasmine rice with garlic, shallots, dried fruit and pecans, spinach salad, and homemade wheat semolina bread. We've been eating husband's homemade pumpkin pie all week so I'm not making any dessert. He still has one piece left and some homemade brown sugar ice cream he can have later.

Husband doesn't like ham and didn't want another turkey, we thought about a pork loin but all the coop producers were sold out, so I suggested duck since I've never made one before. It's just the two of us.

Enjoy your company and your holiday meal. 

I just don't believe this.  All that cooking for 2 people ?  Is she for real ?

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I just don't believe this.  All that cooking for 2 people ?  Is she for real ?

we had ham. awesome ham. soft, sweet ham. oh I love ham.

Now no room for the Tres Leches cake....

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grasswire  (1000+ posts)      Thu Dec-24-09 06:23 PM
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1. what an interesting cookie!

I've never seen anything quite like that with a nut rolled up in dough. The dough is basically the same as that for tassies, and that is a nice thing.

Do you know the origin of the recipe?

Aren't tassies the things strippers put on their nipples so they are technically not completely nude?  But they are also a cookie?  Who knew?

 

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Aren't tassies the things strippers put on their nipples so they are technically not completely nude?  But they are also a cookie?  Who knew?

 

No. Those are the ones with the little fringe hanging down. Without those their called "pasties" or something.... and I am not going to look it up. lol.