This was the weekend I started to try
and answer a question posed to me by Loraine every year at this
time--
“What are you gonna make for
Christmas cookies this year?”
When she asked I had to shake my head
in wonder. Wasn't it just, like, a month or so ago I actually baked
all those cookies?
8-)
Christmas cookies are always a big
deal, if only because I do them twice. For more years than I want to
remember, I’ve always gone over to my parents to make the
traditional Koski family cookies. Even when I didn’t live in
Marquette, I always made sure I got home (if only for a day) to stick
them in the oven. Over the years the tradition spread to the next
generation, as was helped in the task by my nieces Mallory and
Sydney. But now that they're all grown and moved away, I'm back on
my own. And it's too bad, too, as one of their jobs was to make sure
their grandfather didn't eat them all before Christmas.
Some years, that was a full-time job.
The second group of cookies I make is
at my place. These are the cookies that the question that opened
this blog addressed; the 6 or 7 different kinds I bake every year,
some of which we eat, and many of which we share with family,
friends, and neighbors. Like with my parents, there are some
“traditional” cookies I always make--The Grandma Cookie, the
Yooper Cookie, and those incredibly yummy cherry-chocolate blossoms
I’ve come to know and love--but I always also like to try several
different cookies. . .ones I’ve never tried before. One will
invariably have chocolate, another nutmeg. Maybe one’ll have fruit
or mint, and the other will have some kind of exotic flavoring that I
have to spend several weeks trying to track down. And THAT’S why
Loraine always reminds me about Christmas cookies in the middle of
November--so I’ll have enough time to figure out what I’m making,
and then track down everything I’ll need to actually make them.
Well, guess I should go dive deeply
into some of those cookie books I have lying around, and see what I
can come up with for this year. Wish me luck!
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