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I assume everyone has already consumed their yearly allotment of butter, but in case you need something to push you into the 99th percentile, here’s a good way to pop open your fat pants. My mom typed up some of my favorite recipes and mailed them to me when I became a grownup, in those crazy years before computers, global warming, and teeth bleach. It was a time of nutritional wonderment, when mothers fed their babies jars of Gerber egg yolks GAH.
Seriously, though, these are really good, and they freeze pretty well, too.
Happy new year!
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It's either my hormones or the fact that I've been living off of sugar cookies and rum for the past 12 days, but seeing this made me all weepy. I love that she sent your favorite recipes. Especially because they are typed!
Oh man, these sound like they'd be best straight from the freezer.
All of my Mom's and Grandma's Christmas cookie recipes were "all buttah" and boy were they good. Oh and the all buttah frosting too……
And I'm stuck at work on the 28th with a can of tuna and the stale Monday bagels….
She typed them on index cards, all ready to go into your file box? Aligning them so perfectly shows real love and Martha-like attention to detail. Crushingly sweet. The thoughtfulness, I mean.
Perfect stranger here leaving a comment/cooking question–do these spread out or stay ball-like?
Seventh-grade home ec first project was the much despised "Eggs Goldenrod". Hard-boiled egg yolks covered with white sauce. The sixties/seventies did love the yolk!
Aw, you guys are so sentimental.
Roz, they do flatten out some, but in kind of a puffy way.
I think the French are the only ones who have maintained a sort of national amnesia about cholesterol findings, if the work of Julia Child is to be believed.
I have some of those cards in my cook book. One from my Grandma Jean, who turned 100 last year. And she's not my real grandma but better!
And I think I have one from this girl named Linda who I was friendly with in the 4th-6th grade. She wrote with turquoise ink on a file card.
By the time we were in Junior High, grade 7-9, she had dropped me totally.
I love recipes that don't start off with "In a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachement…"
I think these are the same as snickerdoodles. I love snickerdoodles, but I've never liked the name, I think I'll start calling them Gold Cookies.
Wait… there's a BUTTER allotment? Who knew?! Certainly not I!
Gerber Egg Yolks: What the hell???
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GODD cookies, GOLD cookies, or GOOD cookies? ALL OF THE ABOVE. I think I'll make some.
It's GOLD cookies, but all of those work.
The thought of Gerber egg yolks makes me a little woogy…but I guess that is how we all grew up so big and strong.
I love the little recipe cards. I just Xerox, which just doesn't seem as real.
Speaking of Julia, the wife's book club are on a Julia kick and so we had to suffer "spiced cookie dough" — kind of a gingerbread cookie with cumin. That's right, I said cumin. It tastes weird unless you frost the cookie then it's fine. But without the frosting it's kind of like, I dunno, menudo bobbing to the surface of your pho" or something like that.
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oh eden, this recipe could've come from MY mother too. in fact, i think they owned the same typewriter. i have so many 3 X 5 cards with similarly typed recipes. awesome.
Hot damn, those sound yummy. If I didn't already have 48 dozen broken cookies going stale on my kitchen counter, I would totally make some right now!
That may be the best gift I've gotten this year. And I got some good gifts.
My mom did the exact same thing! Well, she used a computer to type them into one document. I use them all the time… they are my "down-home" recipes when I'm looking for comfort food!
I was on the receiving end of a Southern friend's metal recipe boxes from his great aunt Sarah. He thought I would make the best use of them and oh, have I. These old fashioned ones are the best and not a paddle attachment reference in the lot!
See???? This is why Bossy buys her dessert at the convenience store. Who needs to know about The Butter Factor.
I actually lost weight, when I started eating butter again, instead of doing this whole low fat craze.
Happy New Year… enjoy your butter.
That is incredibly sweet. But, Gerber What? And I am supposed to feel bad if anything non-organic touches my child, along with the sugar, fat and every other thing she wants. How times change.
I can actually HAVE those cookies. That's just fricking amazing right there.
And "If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten"??
I'm adopting that as my new motto. thank you.
Hey, I miss seeing your face and having your dogs charge me with poop falling off the one's bottom. And no, I don't mean Jack. Well, him too.
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