Theodora
05-10-2006, 07:35 PM
Hello again--
Just a quickie to offer something ELSE to think about tonight--LONG day for me, so I've just sort of been here "in and out" and not really able to do much more than just scan the posts. However....I've got at least a partial idea of some current interaction....just wanted to acknowledge that and to let you know that I'll be back in touch when I can.
In any case, thoughts of my mother and what positive things we shared always brings to mind her favorite recipe for "buttermilk cookies." I posted this on NACR last December close to the time of her death as a remembrance...and it seemed appropriate to give it to you here again. Sometimes it seems that what we need to "do" with loss/less-than-adequate circumstances is to find a positive alternative to use some of that pent-up emotion.
In any case...so much for the "philosophy"--- Basically, these are just GOOD cookies, we think...and I hope you'll enjoy at least having the recipe, even if you don't decide to try them out right now! If interested, see below for the pertinent sections of the re-post, together with a beginning explanatory comment.
((((Forum Family))))
Love and prayers--
Theodora
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(As originally posted on NACR in remembrance of my mother, the original "Theodora" who died Dec. 25, 1995. If interested, see the original post for other remembrances about this, as well as the poem "Christmas in Heaven" which my brother Lloyd sent me after his son Doug was killed in a car accident Dec. 14, 1997. Lloyd was ill with lung/throat cancer at the time and would himself pass on the end of January, 1998)
http://www.christianrecovery.com/vb/showthread.php?t=3148
Old-Time Cinnamon Jumbles
(Made with buttermilk, these are soft and cake-like.)
Mix thoroughly
1/2 cup soft shortening, part butter or margarine
(A personal note--CREAM well before adding the rest of ingredients. I usually bake a triple-batch at a time, using one stick of margarine and 1 cup of shortening.)
1 cup sugar (Add to softened shortening mix before the next step.)
1 egg
--
Stir in
3/4 buttermilk
1 teaspoon vanilla
(A personal note---ESPECIALLY if doubling or tripling the recipe, I find this blends best if you reserve part of the milk mixture and alternate it with the next flour mixture.)
Sift together and stir in
2 cups sifted flour
1/2 teaspoon soda
1/2 teaspoon salt (A personal note: Slight the measurement, if you are using salted butter or margarine as part of the shortening.)
Chill dough...at least an hour. Drop rounded teaspoonfuls about 2" apart on lightly greased baking sheet. Sprinkle with a mixture of sugar and cinnamon (1/2 cup sugar and 1 teaspoon cinnamon.) Bake until set but not brown. (A personal note--until you get used to the "feel" of the dough, I recommend baking a test batch first. Flour differs in its moisture content, and eggs differ in size--though I usually use medium ones. This means that your dough may be too soft initially to "round up" and make the softer cookies which these are meant to do. They're still quite edible!!---but some experimentation with adding a bit of flour to the dough and becoming familiar with your oven---may improve the end product. Good luck!)
Bake at 375-400 degrees (I use the lower setting..or even bake at 350. )
Time: 8-10 minutes (Set your timer for the lesser time and check as you would for a cake---depressed lightly with your finger, the cooky should "spring back" and not appear moist.)
Amount: about 4 dozen 2" cookies. (?? This according to the recipe I'm following out of the 1960's Betty Crocker's Picture CookBook, p. 197. In actual fact, my triple recipe has been yielding only about 7-8 dozen cookies for me, so I guess my "teaspoonfuls" must be larger than the original recipe called for! )
ENJOY!!! These are best warm from the oven and my brother and I both had happy memories of "inhaling" them straight off the pan as fast as Mother could bake them! Ah.....the memories of youth and INDULGENCE!!! (If you can find this, they're REALLY special if you can get Mexican vanilla extract. My brother sent us some one time and our sons would hardly settle for the "ordinary" kind after that!)
Just a quickie to offer something ELSE to think about tonight--LONG day for me, so I've just sort of been here "in and out" and not really able to do much more than just scan the posts. However....I've got at least a partial idea of some current interaction....just wanted to acknowledge that and to let you know that I'll be back in touch when I can.
In any case, thoughts of my mother and what positive things we shared always brings to mind her favorite recipe for "buttermilk cookies." I posted this on NACR last December close to the time of her death as a remembrance...and it seemed appropriate to give it to you here again. Sometimes it seems that what we need to "do" with loss/less-than-adequate circumstances is to find a positive alternative to use some of that pent-up emotion.
In any case...so much for the "philosophy"--- Basically, these are just GOOD cookies, we think...and I hope you'll enjoy at least having the recipe, even if you don't decide to try them out right now! If interested, see below for the pertinent sections of the re-post, together with a beginning explanatory comment.
((((Forum Family))))
Love and prayers--
Theodora
--------
(As originally posted on NACR in remembrance of my mother, the original "Theodora" who died Dec. 25, 1995. If interested, see the original post for other remembrances about this, as well as the poem "Christmas in Heaven" which my brother Lloyd sent me after his son Doug was killed in a car accident Dec. 14, 1997. Lloyd was ill with lung/throat cancer at the time and would himself pass on the end of January, 1998)
http://www.christianrecovery.com/vb/showthread.php?t=3148
Old-Time Cinnamon Jumbles
(Made with buttermilk, these are soft and cake-like.)
Mix thoroughly
1/2 cup soft shortening, part butter or margarine
(A personal note--CREAM well before adding the rest of ingredients. I usually bake a triple-batch at a time, using one stick of margarine and 1 cup of shortening.)
1 cup sugar (Add to softened shortening mix before the next step.)
1 egg
--
Stir in
3/4 buttermilk
1 teaspoon vanilla
(A personal note---ESPECIALLY if doubling or tripling the recipe, I find this blends best if you reserve part of the milk mixture and alternate it with the next flour mixture.)
Sift together and stir in
2 cups sifted flour
1/2 teaspoon soda
1/2 teaspoon salt (A personal note: Slight the measurement, if you are using salted butter or margarine as part of the shortening.)
Chill dough...at least an hour. Drop rounded teaspoonfuls about 2" apart on lightly greased baking sheet. Sprinkle with a mixture of sugar and cinnamon (1/2 cup sugar and 1 teaspoon cinnamon.) Bake until set but not brown. (A personal note--until you get used to the "feel" of the dough, I recommend baking a test batch first. Flour differs in its moisture content, and eggs differ in size--though I usually use medium ones. This means that your dough may be too soft initially to "round up" and make the softer cookies which these are meant to do. They're still quite edible!!---but some experimentation with adding a bit of flour to the dough and becoming familiar with your oven---may improve the end product. Good luck!)
Bake at 375-400 degrees (I use the lower setting..or even bake at 350. )
Time: 8-10 minutes (Set your timer for the lesser time and check as you would for a cake---depressed lightly with your finger, the cooky should "spring back" and not appear moist.)
Amount: about 4 dozen 2" cookies. (?? This according to the recipe I'm following out of the 1960's Betty Crocker's Picture CookBook, p. 197. In actual fact, my triple recipe has been yielding only about 7-8 dozen cookies for me, so I guess my "teaspoonfuls" must be larger than the original recipe called for! )
ENJOY!!! These are best warm from the oven and my brother and I both had happy memories of "inhaling" them straight off the pan as fast as Mother could bake them! Ah.....the memories of youth and INDULGENCE!!! (If you can find this, they're REALLY special if you can get Mexican vanilla extract. My brother sent us some one time and our sons would hardly settle for the "ordinary" kind after that!)