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TCDC 2013 11 29 PDF
TCDC 2013 11 29 PDF
HOLIDAY
HOLIDAY 5
COOKIES
HOLIDAY COOKIES
COOKIES
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RECIPES
RECIPES
HOLIDAY
50
COOKIES
RECIPES
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Readers share 50 recipes
for holiday baking: F2-5 and 8-12
Four area women
wouldn’t dream of celebrating
the season without their
favorite cookie recipes: F6- 7
; ; ;
Readers share
favorite recipes
for the holidays
RASPBERRY BARS CHEWY CHOCOLATE-
MAKES ABOUT 16 GINGERBREAD COOKIES
I made these at my grandma Karen Baker’s MAKES ABOUT 2 DOZEN
house in Hide-a-Way Hills this summer,
A combination of fresh and ground ginger, molasses
and everyone really liked them.
and chunks of semisweet chocolate makes
1 the cookies sophisticated enough for adults but
⁄2 cup butter or margarine 1
⁄2 teaspoon salt
chocolatey enough for children. This recipe
2 cups white-chocolate 1
⁄2 teaspoon vanilla
is featured in Martha Stewart’s Cookies.
chips, divided 1
⁄2 cup seedless raspberry
2 large eggs jam
1 7 ounces high-quality 1 tablespoon
⁄2 cup granulated sugar 1
⁄4 cup toasted sliced
semisweet chocolate unsweetened Dutch
1 cup all-purpose flour almonds
11⁄2 cups plus 1 tablespoon process cocoa powder
all-purpose flour 1 stick unsalted butter
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Grease and sugar an
11⁄4 teaspoons ground 1 tablespoon freshly
8-inch-square baking pan.
ginger grated ginger
Melt butter in medium-size microwave-safe bowl on
1 teaspoon ground 1
⁄2 cup dark-brown sugar,
high for 1 minute; stir. Add 1 cup white-chocolate chips;
cinnamon packed
let stand. Do not stir. 1
⁄4 teaspoon ground cloves 1⁄2 cup unsulfured
In a large mixing bowl, beat eggs until foamy. Add 1
⁄4 teaspoon ground nutmeg molasses
granulated sugar and beat until light lemon color, about 5
1 teaspoon baking soda
minutes. Stir in chip/butter mixture. Add flour, salt and 1
By Becky Kover ⁄2 cup granulated sugar
vanilla and mix at low speed until combined. Spread
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH two-thirds of batter into prepared pan.
T
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Line two baking sheets
Bake 15 to 17 minutes or until light-golden brown
here’s been a whole lot of with parchment paper.
around edges. Remove from oven to wire rack.
baking going on. Chop chocolate into 1⁄4-inch chunks; set aside.
Heat jam in small microwave-safe bowl for 30 seconds,
In preparation for our In a medium-size bowl, sift together flour, ground
stir. Spread jam over warm crust. Stir remaining 1 cup of
fifth annual Holiday ginger, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and cocoa.
white chips into remaining batter. Drop spoonfuls of batter
Cookies special section, The In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle
over jam and sprinkle with almonds.
Dispatch in late September began
attachment, beat butter and grated ginger until whitened,
Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until edges are brown. Cool
about 4 minutes. Add brown sugar and beat until com-
inviting readers to share their completely in pan on wire rack. Cut into bars.
bined. Add molasses and beat until combined.
favorite recipes. — Audrey Selley, 11, Greensboro, N.C. In a small bowl, dissolve baking soda in 11⁄2 teaspoons
And share they did: We received
boiling water. Beat half of flour mixture into butter mixture.
more than 130 sweet suggestions. Beat in baking soda mixture, then remaining half of flour
From there, we narrowed the mixture. Mix in chocolate and turn out onto a piece of
field to 50 — then turned to some plastic wrap.
Dispatch staff members (and even Pat dough out about 1 inch thick; seal with wrap and
some of their relatives and friends) refrigerate until firm, 2 hours or more.
for help in testing the recipes. Roll dough into 11⁄2-inch balls and place 2 inches apart
The whole staff, in turn, enjoyed on prepared baking sheets.
the fruits — or treats, rather — of Refrigerate 20 minutes. Roll in granulated sugar.
our testers’ labor. Bake until the surfaces crack slightly, 10 to 12 minutes.
The section boasts an array of Let cool 5 minutes then transer to a wire rack to cool
recipes, from ANZAC cookies to completely.
walnut crescents and many varie-
ties in between.
— Suzanne Kull, Columbus
As part of the section, we spot-
light four home bakers who’ve
been making their favorite holiday
cookie recipes for 50 years or NO-COOK
longer (see Pages 6-7). CHOCOLATE-PEANUT
The most enduring of the
quartet: a 97-year-old Mount BUTTER YUMS
Vernon resident who has been MAKES ABOUT 35
preparing her holiday sugar 3
⁄4 cup brown sugar, firmly 1 jar (28 ounces) chunky
cookies for 75-plus years.
packed peanut butter
Amazing, isn’t it?
16 ounces confectioners’ 1 package (12 ounces)
Take some time to peruse the
recipes in the section. Then start
sugar semisweet chocolate GERMAN CHOCOLATE
COOKIES
1
⁄2 cup plus 1 tablespoon morsels
building a baking list. butter, divided
[email protected] MAKES ABOUT 31⁄2 DOZEN
Combine brown sugar, confectioners’ sugar, ⁄2 cup
1
1 package (181⁄4 ounces) 2 eggs
butter and peanut butter and mix well. Pat mixture into an German chocolate 16-ounce bag chocolate
ungreased 15-by-10-by-1-inch jelly roll pan. Smooth top cake mix chips
Special thanks to our bakers: Julie Albert, of mixture. 1
⁄2 cup melted butter 1
⁄2 cup raisins
Joe and Deborah Blundo, Charlie Boss, Melt chocolate morsels and remaining 1 tablespoon 1
⁄2 cup quick-cooking oats
Julia Brinksneader, Mary Chory, Misti Crane, butter in top of double boiler or microwave. Spread
Cindy Decker, Vicki Elliston, Lyndsey Elliston, melted chocolate on top of peanut-butter mixture.
Lisa Fry, Susan Grote, Brooke LaValley,
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Refrigerate for 30 minutes to set chocolate. Before In a large bowl, combine cake mix, butter, eggs and
Kelly Lecker, Michele Lemmon, Ellen cutting into squares or triangles, allow to come to room
Marrison, Mollie McConnell, Jenny Mikesell, oats until well-blended. Stir in chips and raisins. Drop by
temperature so chocolate will not crack. Makes about 35 heaping tablespoonful 2 inches apart on an ungreased
Bev Miller, Alan and Kris Miller, Mary Nguyen,
2-inch squares or 70 triangles if cut in half diagonally. baking sheet. Bake 9 to 11 minutes or until edges are
Andy Sterling, Ben and Julia Sutherly,
Store in refrigerator. firm. Cool 5 minutes before moving to a wire rack to cool
Jim and Amelia Weiker, and Colleen Wright.
Note: These can be frozen. completely.
— Ruth Fishero, Westerville — Betty Jean Twyman, Vinton
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HERBES DE PROVENCE
SHORTBREAD COOKIES
MAKES ABOUT 3 DOZEN
This is an unusual cutout cookie that is delicious.
MIXED-NUT BARS
MAKES ABOUT 3 DOZEN
This has been a favorite
Christmas cookie in our family.
A
s holiday
traditions go,
cookie baking
tops the list of
many families.
In seeking recipes from
readers for our special
section, The Dispatch
heard from four central
Ohioans who’ve been
making a seasonal
favorite for at least a
half-century.
The story of how the
recipe made its way into
the family might be
somewhat-fuzzy (five-
plus decades is a long
time, after all), but the
origins matter less than
the enduring memories
yielded by the tradition.
Here, and on Page F7,
we profile the quartet.
S
itting in a doctor’s office ordered the mincemeat for selfish
waiting room more than reasons: The Christmas treat is
five decades ago, Mary her favorite.
Kreager committed a faux pas: The avid baker, whose freezer Kreager’s baking marathon
She tore a page from one of the is full of goodies year-round, said begins about two months ahead
magazines. the mincemeat — usually a mix- of the holiday — with the gather-
She couldn’t resist the mince- ture of raisins, apples, brown ing of ingredients.
meat-cookie recipe. sugar and beef — doesn’t deter Once she finishes the baking,
“It seemed different,” said the people from eating the cookie. she fills green plastic bags with
Heath resident, now 87, “and I The only drawback is that the her myriad goodies.
Cookies online liked mincemeat.” None Such condensed mince- “I like to give them away to my
E Today’s special section is also All these years later, the cookie meat the recipe calls for is diffi- neighbors, my kids, my grand-
available at Dispatch.com/food remains a favorite — and the first cult to find. Her daughter, Paula kids, the guy who cuts the grass,”
and as part of the e-edition. of 15 types she makes at Christ- Vogel, had to order it online last Kreager said. “I send them to my
mastime. year. (None Such makes ready-to- sister-in-law in Illinois.”
C
harmaine Burton’s family — or the body of the turtle —
must wait patiently until need to be small enough that
December for her beloved the walnuts (the turtle’s feet)
snappy turtles: She makes them stick out after baking.
only at Christmastime. Then the cookies are covered
“They are time-consuming,” in chocolate icing, creating the
the 74-year-old said, “and it (the shell.
recipe) doesn’t make a lot.” Burton’s daughter, Daisy Hil-
The treats are so tasty, though, debrand, has already requested
they’re worth the once-a-year that her mother make snappy
effort, Burton said. turtles for the annual cookie
She usually doubles the recipe exchange she hosts in early
to make enough for her five chil- December.
dren, six grandchildren and six FRED SQUILLANTE DISPATCH That means Burton will have
great-grandchildren, plus the five Charmaine Burton, whose aunt gave her the snappy-turtles recipe to make an extra batch before
women who live in her South she starts her own cookie bak-
Side home. (Burton has run a cookie-baking talents from her of baking. ing five days before Christmas.
group home for women with aunt Helen Hoover, on her Burton isn’t sure where her She doesn’t mind, though.
mental illnesses since 1974.) father’s side. aunt, who has since died, found “It’s such a pretty cookie,”
“The cookies are for everyone,” As a child, she visited her fre- the recipe. Burton said. “It’s just one of my
said Burton, who developed her quently, and they shared a love The cookie is time-consuming favorites.”
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E See Page F4
for the recipe.
Jeanne Palmer
Upper Arlington
T
he hickory-chip cookies
that Jeanne Palmer knows
and loves do not call for
margarine.
“They’re made with butter,”
she said. “I’m from Wisconsin.
There, margarine is garbage.”
And the decorative chocolate
sprinkles should be only real
JONATHAN QUILTER DISPATCH PHOTOS chocolate.
The 64-year-old Upper Arling-
Glendene Hoffman, 97, with a copy of the book (originally published in 1931) from which ton resident should have a firm
she took her sugar-cookie recipe handle on what works in the
shortbread-esque sweet: She has
been making it since childhood.
Glendene Hoffman / Mount Vernon Growing up in Milwaukee, she
would spend Dec. 23 in the
G
lendene Hoffman doesn’t kitchen with her mother and
ice her sugar cookies. sister baking all types of treats —
They’re sweet enough toffee squares, orange dainties,
without the added topping, she spritz. Her favorite, though, was
said. always the hickory chip.
For a little decoration, she “The butter, the vanilla, the
places a few raisins or nuts in the chocolate sprinkles around the
center of each cookie. Some edge — all the flavors come
Christmas seasons, she even through because there’s not
adds red or green sprinkles for much in there,” Palmer said.
color. While away at Smith College
“They’re just good — the best in Massachusetts, she routinely
sugar cookies I’ve ever had,” said asked her mother, Beverly
Hoffman, of Mount Vernon. Chamberlain, to send the cookie
Her family thinks so, too. in care packages.
“The girls at our (recent) And she still makes the cookie
family reunion were saying, for herself and her husband, Bill,
‘Glendene, you’re not going to at Christmastime — and
give up making your sugar The instructions for “the best sugar cookies I’ve ever had” throughout the year.
cookies, are you?’ ” she said. Palmer doesn’t know where
That won’although she does her mother got the recipe or why
plan to mix the dough a day in it is so named.
advance and refrigerate it, then She still has the book, the The cookie, after all, contains
roll it out the next day. pages yellowed and worn, no hickory nuts.
E See Page F8
At 97, she struggles to stand although she doesn’t recall In an old cookbook she owns,
for the recipe.
for long periods. how she came to own it. a recipe with the same ingre-
Hoffman simply can’t imagine Hoffman said she’ll serve the dients is called Chocolate Shot
celebrating Christmas without lemony sugar cookies during a Cookies. So are several versions
the sugary “trees,” “bells” and holiday gathering at her sister’s on the Internet.
“candy canes” she has been Baking Book acquired shortly home. “It’s an unusual recipe that
baking for more than 75 years. after she got married. “I’ll take them over on you don’t see very often,” Palmer
Per tradition, she plans to (She was married to Claude Christmas Eve,” she said, “but said. “It’s not like it’s in Joy of
double the recipe, which she Hoffman for 61 years before his there will be a tin left at my Cooking.”
found years ago in a Calumet death in 1998.) house for Glendene.” [email protected]
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