tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90305068945410737442024-02-06T20:23:22.853-08:00THE GINGER COOKIEMomsuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07443541932664520898noreply@blogger.comBlogger99125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9030506894541073744.post-90420410247342450872017-09-06T16:06:00.001-07:002017-09-06T16:07:31.474-07:00IT'S BEEN TOO LONG!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">It's been so long since I've posted anything I hardly remember how to do it! But I'm still here and there will be cookies eventually. Is it really almost time for Halloween? The stores and kids have been ready for a month! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I just can't get cookies on the blog before Christmas! And after Christmas comes all the cleaning up and putting away and time for some things that didn't get done. I really like this simple tree and let the right people know it - so that a cookie cutter for me turned up with a gift this year from Nina. Thank you Nina! </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQuGZqfPwEUMEOJA6xIqnDpRXzl-JVFY_K4GYNZAxRRywHt-flZ4qLe9ze8qCole3X4SNBTE_DXrlSBzEy0LQ0OyZo3a40dknY4uhpA3MaKgMI5hPbacMqQo-Vjz6XSzaCl7biCuVl7qM/s1600/2016+candy+canes+fix.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQuGZqfPwEUMEOJA6xIqnDpRXzl-JVFY_K4GYNZAxRRywHt-flZ4qLe9ze8qCole3X4SNBTE_DXrlSBzEy0LQ0OyZo3a40dknY4uhpA3MaKgMI5hPbacMqQo-Vjz6XSzaCl7biCuVl7qM/s640/2016+candy+canes+fix.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">HAPPY NEW YEAR!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Don't use the ginger cookie recipe included in this blog for a house - it's too soft. Nina uses Lila Loa's No Chill recipe - found <a href="http://www.lilaloa.com/2013/12/no-chill-gingerbread-roll-out-cookies.html">here</a>. It's a good idea to recut the shapes </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">while they are still warm from the oven. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">They often warp out of shape in baking. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Gracie had a plan! She drew a picture </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">and they baked sugar cookies - hearts and circles. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">And they went to work decorating: <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzwP4aaNtCuFe3IPujurcUQ7oqTlfijSue5dXFgMO3VIE_7WeS02UNGbNMqyE0cU8sbLryKn3ILuZWM_nNqX5cm7Td_jiI89DO0p9NG7pqMmMkpOkVBGtaOEE__0yy1cdL_3w84w0_iw8/s1600/summer+k+fix+lighter.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzwP4aaNtCuFe3IPujurcUQ7oqTlfijSue5dXFgMO3VIE_7WeS02UNGbNMqyE0cU8sbLryKn3ILuZWM_nNqX5cm7Td_jiI89DO0p9NG7pqMmMkpOkVBGtaOEE__0yy1cdL_3w84w0_iw8/s640/summer+k+fix+lighter.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Great job Gracie – you followed your plan. And you did a great job decorating!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">And once again here's the six-petaled flower we love to use! </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">One time when Jill and I were making flowers and butterfly cookies and I was talking about Sugarbelle and how she is a wizard at turning cookie cutters into something else - Jill took some of the flower cookies we'd baked and turned them into butterflies - perfect! Good job, Jill! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Nina co-hosted a 40th birthday party for a friend recently - the theme was "The Beach." It was at the home of another friend, not at a beach at all, but there were plenty of fun seaside decorations to make things festive. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">With a nod to the theme she made sand dollar and</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">sea star cookies for favors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">The theme colors for the party were aqua and coral and Nina mixed up a nice shade</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> of each. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">I planned what I wanted to do on the computer - my favorite planning tool. I take a photo of the cookie and decorate it with the drawing tools in MS Publisher. It's a lot easier than decorating the cookie with real icing! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">When I decorated the cookies I piped the flowers first and had too much stem so I added leaves. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">The first thing not to do is to attempt a complicated design without either a template or a KopyKake projector. I didn't take the time to make a template and I don't have a KopyKake projector. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">It was cold - not cold enough to snow, but cold. The family was all together at Nina's place for the Thanksgiving weekend. Dinner would be leftovers from Turkey Day and we were all inside in a nice warm place. Nina thought</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> it would be fun to decorate cookies and so she baked ginger cookie circles and we made simple snowflakes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">And then it was Christmas and we were all so busy! Did you see the snowflake cutters at Crate & Barrel.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> So pretty all tied together - I'm anxious to make them but we still have a lot of Christmas cookies left . . .</span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">This is such a fun cookie cutter - it makes a wonderful big 5 inch cookie! Jill brought me the cutter from Crate & Barrel last Thanksgiving and I was anxious to make it this year but I didn't quite know how to decorate it. I think turkeys are hard to decorate so I've avoided them in the past. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Depending on how you decorate the cookie it turns into a variety of flowers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Varying the petal shape in icing makes a big difference. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">and Nina made these for me for Mother's Day one year with happy faces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Whenever someone is sick or injured or is recovering from still more back surgery (ahem!) Nina makes Magic Healing Cookies for them. The cookies can be any flavor that person is especially fond of. In my case it's GINGER of course! These big cookies are from Got Milk? </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">the</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Cookie Book by Peggy Cullen - and they are very very good! And so are her many other cookie recipes. It is one of my favorite cookie books! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Peggy says: </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>My first experience west of the Rockies was as a baker on a cattle ranch in Idaho’s Sawtooth Valley. As an avid recipe snoop, it seemed from my New York City perspective that everybody's Mormon mom made a version of this cookie. Whenever I make the cookies east of the Hudson, I’m asked for the recipe.</i></span><br />
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<span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>To my mind, they are the perfect cookies: crispy on the edges, soft and chewy in the center, with a sprinkling of crunchy sugar on top. As they bake, they puff up, heave a sigh, and then collapse as flat as can be. They get that nice cracked top like an old-fashioned ginger snap. Be careful not to overbake these cookies - burnt molasses is bitter. <o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Being sturdy and long-keeping (if they last, which they don’t) Mormon Molasses Spice Cookies are terrific in a lunch box, in the mailbox, or on a winter buffet table. They’re excellent dunked in a cold glass of milk.</i></span><span lang="en-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Our littlest decorator is five now and doing a VERY good job of decorating cookies! She made these especially for Grampa.</span></div>
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Father's Day is such a great excuse to make something special. One year I made a blueberry pie - and for the first time the juices didn't run out of the stars. Yea! I think cutting stars out of the top crust was Nina's idea for the 4th of July one year. The trick is getting the top crust on the pie with the stars where you want them! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Another year I made an apple pie with a crumb crust. Even though pie apples aren't at their best this time of year it's still our favorite pie - I like Macintosh apples for pie or Pippin if I can find them. But the best pie I ever made was from ugly little apples that came from a friend's apple tree here in San Diego! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;">And one year Nina made BIG Snicker-doodles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Do you remember Pogens? They appeared here (in California) in the 1970s and 80s. They were thin crisp ginger cookies in fun animal shapes decorated with little dots</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">poked into the dough. We loved </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">them but then one day they just disappeared! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">A few years ago Nina found <a href="http://www.topsecretrecipes.com/Pogens-Gingersnaps-Copycat-Recipe.html#.TiC0tI3q7SY.email">a recipe</a> online and began to make them for us. She adds 1/2 cup of flour to this recipe, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">chills the dough, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">rolls them 1/8" thick and </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">cuts them</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">into shapes. With a toothpick (the point cut off) she makes eyes and decorates them with dots before baking. The flat end of a cocktail pick or other small skewer will work too. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">It's never too late to spread a little love around and this year it didn't happen for Valentine's Day cookie-wise - in this house anyhow. We had lots of chocolate and sugar cookie hearts but no "decorated" cookies. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">So here are some from a couple of years ago that were never posted. I am ALWAYS behind! At least it's still February! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Our littlest cookie decorator is almost five now and doing fun things with cookies! She wanted to make a gingerbread girl cookie with hair, not a gingerbread boy. And so her mother cut </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">out</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">a girl for her and here she is. (I think she's chocolate but that's okay too.) I love the dress! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">And where are all of our decorated cookies for Christmas? Jill and mine didn't happen and Nina's are still in her computer - which is having a problem. We all made cookies in case you think our family had to do without - just not decorated cookies to post on this blog. I made Lebkuchen (Honey Cakes - from an old </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">German recipe) and Pecan Balls (Mexican Wedding Cakes), Nina made Gingerbread Men and Jill made Spritz. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">It's what we always do and </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">they are so GOOD! </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">I will post the recipes one day. </span><br />
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