Taste of the Season

Baking has begun at my house. I am making a few family recipes. Christmas is going to taste like my childhood this year. First I tried Spritz cookies. These are an almond flavored cookie. They are supposed to go through a cookies press and come out looking like tiny Christmas trees. My dough did not cooperate. Frustrated I ended up rolling out the dough and using a cookie cutter. They did not look the same as I remember, but they tasted right. Yum.Next I made a batch of sugar cookies. Everyone seems to have a recipe they like: thin and crispy or thick and fluffy. I tried the family stand-by. The dough was very sticky and hard to work with. But once again they tasted right so it was worth the hassle. Finally I had a taste for trilbys. I could not find the recipe so I hunted on the internet...where you can find anything. There were lots of recipes for trilbys. I was surprised I thought they were a family secret. I tried the most likely candidate. Unfortunately they were a disaster, tasted nothing like I remember. Sigh. I called my aunt and she was just taking a batch out of her oven! I got the original family recipe and tried again. Ahhh success the oatmeal cookies filled the date spread were tasty.Christmas does not always taste and feel the way I remember from childhood but each year there is the wonder of the season. Each year something makes in Christmas again. This year I found my connection through cookies. I remember baking with my mom and sister, or the years when my son was little and we'd fill the kitchen with flour and sugar. Each year I come to Christmas in a different way but happily I always find the same thing, joy in the season of Good News! Our Savoir is born.As promised I'll share my daily knitting. Here is the hood emerging on my BSJ. I'm a little nervous about applied I-cord. I'll have to go hunting for a YouTube video of how to do it. I don't remember.