I recently had an uncontrollable desire for cookies. Not the ones on the computer; I needed a batch of homemade treats! This surprised me, because ordinarily my food cravings run to things like chocolate, or bacon … or chocolate covered bacon. However, cookies it had to be, and I required Snickerdoodles!
Do you know those cookies? Ohhhh! They are delightful! “They blow my dress up,” as my Daddy would say. They are a cinnamon sugar cookie that just melt in your mouth. When that craving hit, I started digging through my old cookbooks. Sure, I could have found the snickerdoodle recipe on-line, but that wasn’t the point, I don’t think. I needed my recipe book from the 1960s when I was in 4-H.
Sure they are old, but so am I! Raise your hand if you were ever in the youth group called 4-H! That’s where I started my cooking adventures.
My Momma couldn’t teach me how to cook. Momma could add a long column of triple digit numbers in her head and give you the correct answer before you could type the numbers in a calculator. She could type a letter at warp speed (on a real live manual typewriter). She could bandage a skinned knee and kiss it … and it would instantly stop hurting. But, quite frankly, the world is a better place because my Momma didn’t cook much. It was not her forte. Her cooking expertise ended with the can opener.
Being in 4-H was the first time I was ever encouraged to try anything in the kitchen without help. It was great fun. More than I desired cookies, I think I needed to walk down Memory Lane.
The first thing that I ever cooked all by myself was a batch of Snickerdoodles. Oh wait … that’s a lie. I made some yeast rolls that turned out as hard as rocks. My brothers used them as lethal weapons. Let’s amend that to say: these cookies were the first successful thing I ever cooked unsupervised. They are still my favorite dessert to cook.
If you look at that recipe I linked, you will see that it says it makes 4 dozen cookies, but that’s not true. You should definitely double the batch. By the time I had sampled the dough and eaten any cookie that came out of the oven broken — a single batch only made about two dozen cookies for me. My husband thought I was being a dainty eater when I only had one cookie for dessert. He discovered otherwise when he came home from work the next day and found the cookie jar empty.
“Where did those cookies go?” said he. “Ummm … have those cats been getting on the cabinet when we aren’t looking?” I replied.
Hey, don’t knock it! Those cookies enabled me to get through the day.
So tell me … when you get the urge to cook a homemade treat (if that ever happens), what food blows your dress up?
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You are NOT helping. I have been craving my white chocolate, macadamia nut cookies for the last week because of being in the middle of diet hell. Thank you for eating them all because otherwise, I might have to break down your door and wrestle the last snickerdoodle from your hand.
I am so sorry for your diet hell. I will eat cookies so you don’t have to do so. I’m saving you, don’t you see?
Pineapple upside down cake…..yummm. The recipe I have was either my grandmother’s or great grandmother’s and it’s so old it calls for a loaf size box of cake mix!
Ohhhh! I love pineapple upside down cake. Top it with snickerdoodles & life would be so good!
I have two fall back recipes, one is the toll house chocolate cookies, I love that recipe, especially made with butter. Then there are the No Bake Chocolate Oatmeal cookies….mmm, could make those right now.
I’m with you on the yields, mine don’t quite add up to the dozens promised after tasting..
LOL, look at what my blog title came up under the recent blog–
Cats? Really? People like Cat blogs came up as Cats really people like cat blogs, Ah the power of punctuation!
Oatmeal cookies not so much, but I’ll take toll house! I bake cookies and always wonder why I gain weight … duh.
Found this simple afghan square pattern if you want to pass it around
http://crochetncrafts.com/crochet/simpleafghansquare.html
That’s a pretty one.
I’ve got that Snickerdoodle recipe in an early Fifties vintage Betty Crocker Cookbook that belonged to my mother. It was one of my first cookie recipes, too. I still make them at Christmas. As for what makes my dress fly up, probably a batch of Million Dollar Fudge–the kind you make with the chocolate chips and marshmallow fluff. I somehow equate those with fall and winter, too. It’s been 105 degrees here for the past week, so I’m not baking. But I did just finish a Haagen Dasz ice cream bar with vanilla on the inside and milk chocolate on the outside. My husband (what loves me) bought it for me at the Royal Farm, and it cost $3.40. It was awfy good.
An ice cream bar would work, but marshmallow fluff doesn’t blow my dress up. I think I overdosed on it when I was younger, eating it straight from the jar. Blechhh.
Hmmm. A tiny bit of great minds running in the same channels today with the snickerdoodles! I had to bake cookies today for our women’s group at church -to be sold at a tent set-up we have every year when the village where our church is located has the annual town yard sale. So the women bake cookies, make coffee, serve sodas/water and hot dogs -at very reasonable prices -and that’s one of our annual smallish fund raisers. This year, the lady in charge of the cookies asked those of us baking to please avoid any of the ooey-gooey type cookies -like good old favorites of chocolate chip, etc. So I baked up peanut butter cookies and a big batch of snickerdoodles -a long time favorite of mine since I was a little kid. Yeah, many, many moons ago! I also mixed a batch of gingersnaps -another favorite of mine. The peanut butter and the snickerdoodles came out terrific. The gingersnaps however flopped. The batter spread/ran -whatever you want to call it -no puffiness to those cookies at all, no cute little crinkle tops that you expect in them. I was highly ticked that they did that to me since the other cookies had turned out great. Now, I have a question for you -and anyone else who likes to bake cookies -what can cause this to happen? I’m wondering if it was due to the heat and humidity today, was my oven maybe a bit too hot or something. It couldn’t have been the ingredients because I had used the recipe before and it worked fine plus, I had double-checked my ingredients (amounts) as I added them too. I was really, royally disappointed in these flat cookies -even though they tasted okay but if they’d been the right shape and all, they’d have been so darned much better! Thanks goodness that didn’t happen with my snickerdoodles though as they came out looking exactly like the ones in your photo!
I really haven’t a clue why the gingersnaps didn’t “snap.” I don’t make them much, because no one at my house ever helped me eat them.
The cookbook pictures remind me of the ones I have. My mother gave them to me many moons ago.
I love to collect cookbooks and old kids cookbooks in good shape are hard to find.
I have a collection of cookbooks that I have never cracked open … so perfect condition is not an issue at my house
. Kids cookbooks ARE hard to find, though … and these are smeared with peanut butter (at least I think that’s what it is).
ANY kind of cobbler … preferably Blackberry.
Yep, and Mamaw made the best.
I just got teeth extracted and I have been craving chocolate covered bacon since I saw the words in your post. I usually crave cookies, popcorn, bars of some kind. I have many cookies cookbooks so baking a batch isn’t much trouble.
With teeth extracted, cookies (soft ones) are a better choice! Sorry I got you craving chocolate covered bacon. My bad!
Oh my, you really started something by posting the pictures of those cookbooks. Connie and I lived down the street from the little girl who posed for the covers. We were best friends in 1st and 2nd grade until she moved away. She was an aspiring model/actress and appeared in a Mrs. Baird’s television commercial – we were so thrilled to see her on TV – we felt like we knew a Hollywood star! Somewhere in this house I have a newspaper clipping of her holding the cookbook. We were eight years old when the first edition came out. Also, I wasn’t in 4-H but I was a Camp Fire Girl and I have my copy of Cooking is Fun for the Camp Fire Girl.
That is such a funny story! Isn’t it a small world? A Hollywood star indeed. I hope she got to work as an actress when she got older.
I remember being in 4-H. I can’t recall ever making snickerdoodles or doing any kind of cooking; I only remember my sister trying to train one of our chickens (yes, a chicken — we lived on a farm) for one of her “pet” projects. Crazy!
Lisa, we lived in town, so we didn’t get to do that part of 4-H. We did cooking & sewing…maybe public speaking? I don’t remember now, because I’ve slept since then, but I remember snickerdoodles!
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