I’ve been inspired. My mom recently found her grandmother’s cook book. It’s from the 1930’s – its one of those books that you feel like you should be wearing gloves to hold. It’s awesome.
There are so many wonderful old-fashioned recipe’s in there – things I’ve never even heard of like “Date Surprises” and “Lady Baltimore Cake” – there’s even a recipe in there for Johnny Cakes….which I always thought was just a funny expression not an actual cake!
Starting this blog was all worth it even if it was just so that I could acquire this treasure. I’m so honored to bake from this book….I hope I make Mimi McGee proud!
So, as I said in my last post, my mom and I signed up for cake decorating classes. They started last night!
We went this past weekend and got all the supplies we needed – Student decorator’s kit, icing, colors – plus we have to bring basics like paper, pen, plastic bag and even an apron. And for our first class we were tasked with bringing 6 plain flat cookies….which I’m assumed would be for practice in decorating.
This is where Mimi’s first recipe came into play! Page 60 – “Old Fashioned Sugar Cookies.” A perfect place to start! Easy to follow recipe and I recognized all the ingredients – you never know with an old recipe what might be in there! It did have some interesting ingredients though like lemon zest, nutmeg and cream?!
They came out pretty darn good…for sugar cookies. I don’t know about you but I find sugar cookies so boring! The only part I skipped was coating with sugar before baking. Since we were decorating them I thought that having extra sugar on top would make it difficult to ice. They had a very nice nutmeg flavor from what would normally be an ordinary boring cookie.
Note on my cookie cutters: So I realized that I have a horrible selection of cookie cutters! Apparently I only think that it’s important to have cutters that represent Christmas! Thankfully I was able to find two bunny ones and then I just used a piece of Tupperware to make basic circles. Another item for the check list – more cookie cutter variety!
Next post will be about our class! Stay tuned….I need to take some pictures of my new tools first!
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