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Be not a baker if your head be of butter.
–Proverb

Today is National Cookie Day! Celebrate with one of our favorite cookie recipes.

The 10 Best Cookie Recipes

From our Blue Ribbon Chocolate Chip to beloved Cowboy Cookies, see ten of our readers' favorite cookie recipes. Our best cookie recipes are easy to bake, too. And there's something for everyone from elegant cranberry and white chocolate chip cookies.

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Christmas Dessert Recipes: Festive Sweet Treats

A selection of our favorite Christmas dessert recipes, including cakes, puddings, pies, cookies, and more!

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I like butter cookies and thumbprint cookies and a couple of old family recipes--DD's have those recipes--such as
something called "sweetish squares", which was a hardish cookie with a walnut base and dusted with confectioner's sugar, with the consistency of a scone, but more crumbly. IF I can find the recipe I will post it.
If you look up the recipe you won't find it. It was my Hungarian Aunt's family recipe.

I saw a German lady's instagram post this week where she made thumbprint cookies but used lemon curd instead of jam for the filling. I think I'm going to try that.

 

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"Amaryllis bulbs can stay dormant up to 12 months without any issues, as long as you store them properly. However, for the best results, I recommend planting them every year, otherwise they will dry out and eventually die."
YOU know how it is, we are desperate for anything that will grow this time of year!!

 

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Sounds yummy!!

Perfect Lemon Curd

Lemon curd is deliciously tart, sweet, and silky smooth. It's easy to make at home in less than 10 minutes with just 5 ingredients for a tangy treat.

www.allrecipes.com

 

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I had to ALSO post this recipe, bc the precious recipe doesn't tell you HOW to add eggs to hot liquid and not cook them. Look at Step#3.

Grandma's Lemon Meringue Pie

This lemon meringue pie has fresh lemon juice and lemon zest in the filling with billows of baked meringue on top for a deliciously dreamy dessert.

www.allrecipes.com

 

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The "Walnut Roll" I was Told, was a family recipe. I guess that means all Europeans are related to me, bc every European county owns this recipe as their own.
My family used to make this for Easter.
If you haven't ever had a piece, it is nutty and meaty and sweet and great with coffee.

Nut Roll Recipe

Homemade Nut Rolls - An old family recipe that shows up for every holiday!

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THIS looks good, too!

The Best Hamantaschen Recipe Ever | The Nosher

Make sure your Purim is delicious with The Nosher's top hamantaschen recipe, designed to help you make perfect hamantaschen this holiday.

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I have heard of people who planted a bald cypress, NOT knowing it would grow 70 ft tall!
Anyway, it is a valuable tree:

One tough tree: Bald cypress

Lessons learned: Bald cypress is a tree to know Don’t you wish you knew then what you know now? Speaking from experience, when I first began studying plants, people

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Our family likes to watch our collection of Christmas movies. Here's one that I Didn't know it Was a Christmas movie, but we watched it last night and I forgot Just how funny it is!

Blades of Glory (2007) ⭐ 6.3 | Comedy, Sport

1h 33m | PG-13

www.imdb.com

 

[heirloomgal]

Sounds yummy!!

Perfect Lemon Curd

Lemon curd is deliciously tart, sweet, and silky smooth. It's easy to make at home in less than 10 minutes with just 5 ingredients for a tangy treat.

www.allrecipes.com

This is our sinful indulgence for Christmas - I never cook it outside of the holiday season, mostly because there is literally no food in it, just pure sugar and GMO cornstarch! Lol But DD just loves lemon anything so this is her special treat.

 

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The "Walnut Roll"

Reminds me of the cinnamon rolls my mom made on the farm. We had walnut trees. Big, productive English walnut trees!

I suppose one might call it my first job — cracking walnuts and selling them to the store in the nearby community . But, I also cracked them for Mom. When I first had a cinnamon roll from a bakery and learned that everyone didn't fill them with walnuts, I don't know .

Steve