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Thread Number: 33302
/ Tag: Recipes, Cooking Accessories
Christmas Cookies |
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Post# 363418 12/11/2016 at 14:33 (2,692 days old) by gottahaveahoove  (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640) |
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 Who makes them? What kinds? I have to make some for a little luncheon/get together tomorrow at the college. My late grandfather had a bakery, and taught several of us how to make wonderful things. Also, growing up in a very Italian town, we learned a lot of Italian things, as well. Today, the Kitchenaid mixer is whirring. Over the holidays, I'll be making: Italian pepper cookies, tadals (anisette) sugar (cutouts), pizzelles, almond, vanilla, and Toll House. Of course, Irish sodabread ans Zuchinni bread are almost a weekly thing here. Share???? | ||
| Post# 363422 , Reply# 1 12/11/2016 at 14:59 (2,692 days old) by vacerator (Macomb Michigan) | ||
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My Kitchen Aid got a work out today also. I made fruitcake cookies with dried apricots, cherries, figs and nuts, and fig hamantaschen with cream cheese cookie dough. | ||
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Post# 363451 , Reply# 2 12/12/2016 at 09:29 (2,691 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640) |
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Mike! That all sounds wonderful.
My aunt in N Carolina made a great fruitcake in her day.
In Ireland, they frost fruitcake, calling it, "Christmas Cake". It is the traditional wedding cake there as well. That is something I've kept away from, although, I don't really know why, as I love fruitcake. (I know some, too). Another story.. another time. I don't cook regularly, BUT, when I do, I use everything. Suffice it to say: it is very well-equipped. And, let's face it, you want to have nice equipment. | ||
| Post# 363479 , Reply# 4 12/12/2016 at 15:05 (2,691 days old) by vacerator (Macomb Michigan) | ||
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MMM Rum makes everything better! | ||
| Post# 363488 , Reply# 5 12/12/2016 at 19:42 (2,691 days old) by suckolux (Yuba City, CA) | ||
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| Post# 363501 , Reply# 6 12/13/2016 at 07:16 (2,690 days old) by vacerator (Macomb Michigan) | ||
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Arthritis David? Be glad you aren't around here then. It's 13 f. this morning, and this climate is bad for arthritics. I'm not much younger than you, and am very thankfull I still have full mobility. My mom had it in her knees, like my grandmother did also. They suffered terrible. | ||
| Post# 363502 , Reply# 7 12/13/2016 at 08:24 (2,690 days old) by suckolux (Yuba City, CA) | ||
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Post# 363520 , Reply# 8 12/13/2016 at 14:44 (2,690 days old) by Vinvac (Dubuque IA) |
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| Post# 363523 , Reply# 9 12/13/2016 at 14:58 (2,690 days old) by vacerator (Macomb Michigan) | ||
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fruitcake was the first wedding cake in old England. Most hate it, but made with out that yucky citron, and with figs, apricots, cherries, and actual cake batter and nuts it is good. Also Pizzales and anise flavored S cookies, and poticca nutroll from czeckaslovakia, and fudge. | ||
| Post# 363581 , Reply# 10 12/14/2016 at 08:44 (2,689 days old) by portable (Corvallis, OR) | ||
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| Post# 363603 , Reply# 12 12/14/2016 at 14:08 (2,689 days old) by vacerator (Macomb Michigan) | ||
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The old Jane Parker fruitcakes A&P used to sell were pretty good. If no one ate them and you still had it around by spring, the birds would. | ||
| Post# 363673 , Reply# 13 12/15/2016 at 21:00 (2,688 days old) by kenkart () | ||
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AHHH A and P Jane Parker We had one every year until the A and Ps all closed in NC..I LOVE fruitcake. | ||
| Post# 363675 , Reply# 14 12/15/2016 at 21:18 (2,688 days old) by pr-21 (Middletown, OH) | ||
We didn't have fruitcake, my mom made a homemade Applesauce Nut Cake. It had raisins, walnuts, applesauce, nutmeg, cinnamin, flour and sugar and eggs. It makes a huge cake, mom used an angle food cake pan to make hers. I use a molded bundt cake pan and put the remainder in a oblong square shaped glass baking dish. This makes the small one to keep and the cake to take to Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner. Takes approx 1 hr and 15 min to bake.
PR-21 Bud I just talked myself into making one for Christmas. | ||
| Post# 363676 , Reply# 15 12/15/2016 at 21:39 (2,688 days old) by kenkart () | ||
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I have made The applesauce cake also, its VERY good, Also a Southern thing is a dried apple stack cake, it has 7 or 8 layers of a thin molasses cookie type cake filled with cooked dried apples...very good but takes a lot of work to make. | ||
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Post# 363718 , Reply# 16 12/16/2016 at 21:04 (2,687 days old) by countryguy (Astorville, ON, Canada) |
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| Post# 363731 , Reply# 17 12/17/2016 at 00:27 (2,686 days old) by Real1shep (Walla Walla, WA) | ||
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I abhor the light kind....don't consider them 'true' fruitcakes. A fruitcake is supposed to be so rich, you have trouble getting through one slice. The light ones you can eat like bread....lol.
Kevin | ||
| Post# 363743 , Reply# 18 12/17/2016 at 11:49 (2,686 days old) by dysonman1 (the county) | ||
I love to bake Fruitcake. The secret is in the batter. It should just hold the fruit and nuts together.
My great aunt taught me how to make a Hungarian Christmas cookie called "kipfulls". I don't know how to spell it in Hungarian, but that's what the name sounds like. It's a sweet 'pie dough' make with leaf lard (from the Butcher), rolled out and filled with either a ground nut/condensed milk mixture, or a cooked apricot mixture, then formed into crescents and baked. A little powdered sugar on top. We used to put them in metal tins and give them to friends and family. The hardest part was finding a butcher who would save that lard. Doesn't work with Crisco or even regular lard. | ||
| Post# 363762 , Reply# 19 12/17/2016 at 18:36 (2,686 days old) by kirby519 (Wisconsin) | ||
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@suckolux Congratulations on your "Big one" Glad to see another December Birthday here. I just hit the big 50 on December 8th. I too am starting to feel the aches and pains of years of janitorial work. | ||
| Post# 363763 , Reply# 20 12/17/2016 at 18:40 (2,686 days old) by kirby519 (Wisconsin) | ||
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As for the Christmas cookies. I always like to have some Toffee bars. Like the jelly button cookies, Pecan Fingers and some good sugar cookies. Those are staples in our family. We try others each year and see if we like them. | ||
| Post# 363765 , Reply# 21 12/17/2016 at 19:19 (2,686 days old) by Caligula (Wallingford, Connecticut) | ||
To kirby519 and suckolux. | ||
| Post# 363766 , Reply# 22 12/17/2016 at 19:20 (2,686 days old) by Caligula (Wallingford, Connecticut) | ||
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| Post# 363767 , Reply# 23 12/17/2016 at 19:24 (2,686 days old) by Caligula (Wallingford, Connecticut) | ||
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kirby519. | ||
| Post# 363784 , Reply# 24 12/18/2016 at 06:14 (2,685 days old) by vacerator (Macomb Michigan) | ||
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happy Birthday, and Happy Holidays all. A cousin, only 61 passed away recently of cancer. Never smoked, drank, or was ever over weight. Alex, You've got ten years on me, and I already use reading glasses. I hope we see 80, or more, but we just never know. Doctor Heimlich died Friday, he was 96. | ||
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