Hannah's cookie experiences

Hannah remembers making the cookies with her grandma when she was a little girl. Cookies were made whenever Grandma Rose had the stregnth to make them. Grandma Rose was under 5 feet tall, and she's make 500 cookies by herself. They were made several times a year, and all the grandkids would beg her to make the cookies.

The recipe was known to the women in the family but not written down. To get the written recipe the women had to follow the cooks around the kitchen estimating the quantities (and pulling out their hair when someone decided it needed a little bit more of something). Eventually a written recipe was established, although today when we made the cookies it was still from a very vague recipe that didn't have quantities of cinnamon sugar or nuts.

From Grandma's Cookies

25 years ago we made the cookies and Kay thought the cinnamon was bad, after making all the cookies, she insisted on getting new cinnamon at the store, and to exchange the cinnamon she brought the cookies back to the store - we're sure the customer service people thought they made a fair trade!

From Grandma's Cookies