tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5446802283239662385.post3865240356746848477..comments2023-03-10T03:01:25.839-05:00Comments on Little Compton Mornings: Lotsa Butter: Christmas CookiesJanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11068348526232036423noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5446802283239662385.post-72982314413777950852015-12-14T23:09:30.145-05:002015-12-14T23:09:30.145-05:00I can just taste those dainty, buttery, toasty-nut...I can just taste those dainty, buttery, toasty-nut, crumbly bites now. We've got half the cookies in the world in this house this minute, and I gotta try these.<br /><br />I know they'll be like the best ones I remember: Several years ago I was invited to Caro's Christmas party at her work, and the youngest employee was a lovely young woman whose Daddy made her contribution of cookies, because he was "famous" for them.<br /><br />She came in bearing one of those plastic gallon ice cream buckets in each hand, and when they snapped off the tops---solid white inside. His recipe was to cool the cookies thoroughly, and encase them all in those buckets of powdered sugar. You practically had to sift out the last dozen or so, and they were SUBLIME.<br /><br />I'd never seen anybody use so much XXX in one place before (well, maybe when we used to do wedding cakes), but whatever it was---it worked. Those cookies were the Goblin Market of baked goods---absolutely right in every regard of taste and texture and lingering CRAVE for another.<br /><br />You brought such a flood of that memory. We've made them a couple of times since, sometimes with lemon zest, sometimes with lime, and they are all simply fabulous.<br /><br />As are you, I hope---I wish you a wonderful bright holiday season full of all good things. <br /><br />rachelRachelDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11204947567574886675noreply@blogger.com