Sunday, January 3, 2010

It's A Whole New Year!


Remember Snickerdoodles?

They won a Betty Crocker baking contest way back when and an entire generation of children grew up eating Snickerdoodles.

Lilburn, Georgia, began the new year with unusually cold temperatures. It was 18 degrees when we woke up this morning. Brrrrrrr. This is how Snickerdoodles once again entered our household after a hiatus of at least thirty years.

We decided that a wonderful way to spend the day would be to light the fireplace and sit and enjoy it while Carl read the new book he got for Christmas and I began my cross stitch of "Santa Of The Forest" - a project that will probably take until next Christmas to finish.

Perhaps because Christmas cookies were very scarce in our household this year, Carl decided he would like cookies he remembered from a long time ago - thin, crisp, and had cinnamon on them. It had to be Snickerdoodles.

I found the original recipe on the Internet and unexpectedly spent an hour in the kitchen. Santa Of The Forest was put on hold for a while but what better way to start off the new year than pleasing your husband by recreating a memory?

Happy New Year, everyone.