tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574060146103839230.post2561127111026376308..comments2022-11-13T09:38:58.195-05:00Comments on Raining Acorns: In Search of Lost CookiesSusan Scheid (Raining Acorns)http://www.blogger.com/profile/02827286681242730183noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574060146103839230.post-62507776313458738502009-12-27T09:19:19.385-05:002009-12-27T09:19:19.385-05:00Ah, Christmas cake! Indeed, better loved by adult...Ah, Christmas cake! Indeed, better loved by adults, if properly laced with brandy . . .Susan Scheid (Raining Acorns)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02827286681242730183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574060146103839230.post-45736155971831531692009-12-27T09:01:55.123-05:002009-12-27T09:01:55.123-05:00I love the description of Mrs Schweer - I grew up ...I love the description of Mrs Schweer - I grew up with a version of her as a neighbor, too, though she didn't bake cookies.<br />Like your Great Grandma L, my mother baked Christmas mince pies. All of our mothers and grandmothers baked a Christmas cake every year about 3 months before the day. Only the adults seemed to enjoy those baked goods! Nowadays Christmas cake is the one thing that I bake - my husband loves the rich fruit cake (liberally fed with brandy). It's the only gift he requests every Christmas. Talk about a stupor, after eating a slice of that!!Carol-Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07390714553925368818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574060146103839230.post-73886517030870344502009-12-26T20:09:37.421-05:002009-12-26T20:09:37.421-05:00So enjoyed your comment, and I believe my family w...So enjoyed your comment, and I believe my family would endorse the view that Tollhouse cookies will always be among the top ten to beat. (Mom still recalls her Aunt Lucille's.) As for dressing up for birthday parties, I don't know the answer to your question, though I'd guess not. We did love ours, however, and, by the by, though Mom may not have had the baking gene, she made many, many party dresses, including the one you see.Susan Scheid (Raining Acorns)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02827286681242730183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574060146103839230.post-66807219851745516142009-12-26T19:40:34.123-05:002009-12-26T19:40:34.123-05:00I sit writing this comment in a sugar-stupor, afte...I sit writing this comment in a sugar-stupor, after indulging in too many of my own Christmas cookies. My grandmother was not a baker, her culinary gifts all contained garlic and tomatoes, so I do not have similar childhood memories of particular Christmas cookies or baked goods. Fortunately my family thinks cinnamon krinkles and good old Tollhouse cookies are gourmet holiday desserts.<br /><br />My mother always tries to impose her stollen and pfefferknusse on us each December, but they just don't take.<br /><br />Thanks for sharing your reminiscences and photos (do any little girls dress up like that for birthday parties anymore?)<br /><br />I am off to check out the other commenters' websites!Wide Open Spaceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04573357176617683341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574060146103839230.post-23390683094764253932009-12-25T12:45:04.973-05:002009-12-25T12:45:04.973-05:00In the quest to recreate the Mrs. Schweer cookie I...In the quest to recreate the Mrs. Schweer cookie I have found that my adult palate and physiology does not tolerate the extreme sugar that I loved as a child. Nonetheless, I regret that I never thought to ask Mrs. Schweer for the recipe or about her life. I thank her for the wonderful memories and would want her to know that in addition to Mom, Dad, Susan, Snoopy and Marshall Field’s, her cookies were at the top of my Christmas wish list each year! <br /><br />Note: Although there is no substitute for the Mrs. Schweer cookie, I did find a Scandinavian recipe without the royal icing that might be adult friendly. An interesting ingredient is cardamom.<br /><br />www.christonium.com/culinaryreview/Classic_Scandinavian_Gingerbread_CookiesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574060146103839230.post-846332261014333382009-12-24T15:03:08.598-05:002009-12-24T15:03:08.598-05:00Now, this is quite something: Two really, really g...Now, this is quite something: Two really, really good cooks and bakers, one in Hawaii, another in New York/Maine, have been nice enough to comment on this post! Readers who are in search of cookie recipes should DEFINITELY click on both commenter's names to take a look at their sites!<br /><br />Thank you both for writing, and happy holidays to you and yours!Susan Scheid (Raining Acorns)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02827286681242730183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574060146103839230.post-20712990449627347252009-12-24T14:48:45.070-05:002009-12-24T14:48:45.070-05:00Great story! -- I love the unresolved quality. Str...Great story! -- I love the unresolved quality. Strikes me as more genuine than those tidy reminiscences where every person is in the right place and every cookie on the plate is still being made according to the ancestral recipe by the 3rd or 4th generation.<br /><br />That said, I make my mother's Vanilla Crescents using a recipe she typed out for me, coming as close to the same cookies she made as I can humanly manage and so does my sister, although we both call them Moth cookies in memory of her.lesliehttp://inkitchenandgarden.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574060146103839230.post-65264709081974729262009-12-24T14:32:11.040-05:002009-12-24T14:32:11.040-05:00Aloha Susan, your family historian sent me the lin...Aloha Susan, your family historian sent me the link to your outstanding blog. This post has set the tone for me for today - warm and filled with the aromas of baked goods coming from the oven. And filled with memories. Thank you for sharing yours. And Happy, Happy Holidays. BonnieBonnie Friedmanhttp://www.vine-ripened.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com