This assignment is going to be fun!
Part A: Favorite Holiday Cookie Recipe
If my family is able to get together with my parent's and sister and her family at Christmastime, it's usually requested that I make some particular cookies. I do believe I'm the only one in the family that makes them and so it kind of became my thing I did for them. We don't usually get together at Christmas time much anymore - Thanksgiving is generally the time to get together with my family. These cookies are so wonderful but oh so fattening! They are sugar cookies with icing and they just melt in your mouth. I usually use cookie cutters and make different shapes . But guess what???? I can't find the recipe!!!! It's been a couple of years since I made them and the recipe can't be found! That is a major bummer! So, I'm going to share another recipe that is so yummy! This cookie recipe is also pretty fattening. My brother-in-law loves these cookies.
Chocolate Chip/Oatmeal Cookies
2 eggs
1 cup butter
1 tsp. hot water
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
2 cups flour
1 tsp. salt
2 cups oats
1 - 12 oz. pk. chocolate chips
1 tsp. soda
Mix flour, soda, and salt together. Cream butter alone. Add sugar gradually to butter beating until fluffy. Add eggs to butter/sugar mixture one at a time beating after each egg. Add hot water and vanilla. Mix. Sift dry ingredients into it and mix. Add chocolate chips. Mix. Bake at 375 degrees for about 8 minutes.
(This recipe was passed on to me years ago. Being that it's been years ago that I received this recipe, I am only going to give the initials of the person who passed this recipe to me - out of respect for that person. This recipe came from M.B.)
Part B - A Cookie Baking Tradition
Our family actually doesn't celebrate the traditional Christmas. Although we do enjoy some of the holiday music and movies. In fact, just tonight we were watching one of my hubby's favorite holiday movies: It's A Wonderful Life. We have our own celebration largely patterned after Hanukkah. During our celebration, we celebrate everything from creation to Jesus' birth, death, burial and resurrection. It's a wonderful time for our family! (We usually spend Christmas day with my hubby's family for their traditional Christmas get-together.) During our family celebration, one of the things I like to do is some cookie baking. I have a picture from one year of my daughter standing at the counter with her apron on helping with the cookies. It's a really cute picture. We have certain traditions that go along with our celebration such as my hubby making his latkes. Then we have things that we do some times and other times we don't. We also usually try to have some activities throughout the week of our celebration. We've made Menorrahs using toilet paper rolls and tissue paper. Wrapped up in the tissue paper were little treats. Each night of the celebration, each child got to pull out the tissue paper for one candle in the menorrah and see what their treat was. The year we did this, we had one candle in each of their menorrahs that had money in it. Of course, that was a big hit! One year, we made decorative plates. I haven't gotten together any activities yet for this year. I better get to it as I only have a few more days. But even if we don't do many crafts/activities, I still want to do some baking.
While not a cookie/baking memory, I remember growing up that on Christmas Eve my mom would make her homemade hot cocoa and we would read about the birth of Christ.
Part C - Scriptures to Share
"Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders which You have done,
And Your thoughts toward us;
There is none to compare with You.
If I would declare and speak of them,
They would be too numerous to count." Psalm 40:5, NASB
"You, O LORD, will not withhold Your compassion from me;
Your lovingkindness and Your truth will continually preserve me." Psalm 40:11, NASB
"Let all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You;
Let those who love Your salvation say continually,
'The LORD be magnified!'" Psalm 40:16, NASB
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