Sunday, July 9, 2023

please pass the cookies...

 Today is "National Sugar Cookie Day."  Not too surprisingly, this brings back a sweet memory.  The year was 1956.  My girlfriend and I were in our 4th year of 4H, a time when we moved up from simple sewing and cooking to more complicated things.  In our case, we decided to work together to create a demonstration on baking sugar cookies.  We both lived in the country, about a half mile from each other (an easy bike ride) and we spent that long summer going back and forth from her mom's kitchen to mine, baking sugar cookies and practicing our routine.  We baked a lot of sugar cookies; I think my dad was really getting tired of them in his lunch.  I don't actually remember the demonstration, although I think we did ok.  What I do remember is our very eager audience.  Each of us had a 'little' brother, two years younger but already as tall as us and big husky boys.  They LOVED our sugar cookies.  No matter how many we baked there were never any leftovers.  I'm pretty sure "National Sugar Cookie Day" was started in our honor.  

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