A Holiday Recipe!

I was having one of those “I miss my Mommy” moments the other day.  It’s amazing how you can feel like a little girl again, especially during the Holidays.  One of the things that I kept coming back to were all of the things that I didn’t know.  Questions that I never got to ask.  Where is this, what about that?  And I began to remember her Christmas cookie recipe.  Up until about four years ago, she always made a batch of the yummiest best cookies for Christmas Eve.  She would cut them and decorate them, and then slap your hand if you tried to eat too many because she had worked so hard on them and wanted to have plenty left for after dinner coffee.

So……the recipe was gone.  Lost forever.  And I hadn’t written it down anywhere.  And it’s just one of those silly little things that you remember and then sit and cry about.  Sometimes the little things are the most difficult.

BUT……….don’t feel too sad yet!

Heather and I were at her house again today.  Digging and looking at things, still deciding what to keep and what to sell.

I pulled a cookbook off of a shelf in the bedroom and opened it………there written in her handwriting on the inside cover was THE recipe!!  It was so surreal.  There are still probably a couple hundred books in that house.  What are the chances that I would pull THIS ONE from the shelf.

So I want to share this recipe with all of you.  Kind of my Holiday tribute to my Mother.  And I hope many of you try it.  These cookies are melt in your mouth yummy.  I have only tried this recipe one other time (when she was alive) and I made a mess of it.  She always said that the two tricks to them turning out perfectly were chilling the dough and making sure that you roll them nice and thin and even.

So here it is………….

Christmas Cookies

• 2 C  Soft Butter
• Cream with 1 C Sugar
• Blend in 1 egg & 2 teaspoons vanilla
• gradually add 4 1/2 C sifted flour
• Chill dough for at least 2 hours
• Roll 1/8” thick
• Cut into desired shapes
• Bake 6-9 minutes at 375 degrees

Let me know if you try it.  I’m sure this isn’t some secret one-of-a-kind recipe, but I would never have been sure it was the EXACT one if I hadn’t found it. 

Every once and a while, I feel like she’s watching over me.  Today was one of those days!  And all for a cookie recipe!

ENJOY!

Denise