From my recipe box, I pulled this treasure, from my Great-grandmother on my Dad’s side, Grandmother’s Tea Cookies. She was English, although spent many years in Shanghai, China, where my Grandmother was born, but from the looks of the recipe, it sounds like she took her Englishness with her over the ocean. For this [...]
One of the things I love about looking through my recipe box is the validation that I come from a long line of cooks. And how do I know this? Well, for one thing, the recipes are from my Mom, my Grandmother, my Great Aunts (her sisters) and Great Great Aunts (way far back, late [...]
When Lydia sent me email suggestion that I host another Drop In and Decorate event for Mother’s Day, I was excited. I had thought about doing something at the end of April, to celebrate my birthday, but tying it into Mother’s Day was a great idea. Immediately, I began to think about good recipients. Drop [...]
With lots of baking planned this weekend, as well as recovery from last weekend’s marathon of cupcakes, I needed a little break on this week’s Cookie Thursday. Instead, I offer you an old family recipe, which will double as my entry into Vintage Recipe Thursday, hosted by Joy of Joy of Desserts. Sand Tarts have [...]
Kim brought me culinary lavender from Ali’i Kula Lavender Farms in Maui, and this week, I decided to try it in a Madeleine recipe from Baking From My Home to Yours, by Dorie Greenspan. In addition, Louise recently gifted me a Shell Pan, useful for making Madeleines, so I now had no excuse. I have never [...]
Over the weekend, we were invited over to our friend Suzy and Doug’s house for dinner, and I brought cookies for the kids for dessert. And even though lemons are a winter-ish fruit, I still think of them as a wonderful spring fruit. The tart flavor, the bright yellow color all seem so sunny [...]
With all the honey around my house, I thought a cookie with honey as a main ingredient would be a good choice. Fortunately, I was able to turn to my trusty Pooh Cook Book, by Virginia Ellison (1969), because as everyone knows, Winnie-the-Pooh is the king of honey! I think this cookbook was my very [...]
Reading the Mercury News on Tuesday, I ran across a an article in the Action Line column in which a reader asked for the recipe for the World’s Best Cookie, apparently first published in the Mercury News in 1986. And naturally, I was curious. I mean, that is a big claim. After last week’s cookie [...]
Well, I guess that depends on how you view syrup. Is it part of the sugar family, or not? Since I have given up sugar (and actually, more truthfully, desserts) for Lent, I decided to find a cookie recipe without sugar this week. Still means I cannot eat them*, but at least the kids are [...]
Little A came home from school wanting to make a cookie, so make a cookie we did. I was looking for something kind of quick, and something with chocolate, and after perusing the pictures in Martha Stewart’s Cookies, we chose: Chocolate Thumbprints from Martha Stewart’s Cookies 1 cup, plus 3 tablespoons, unsalted butter, room temperature [...]
