I had a birthday party to go to on Saturday and promised to bring cookies.
We got this recipe for cornmeal cookies off of a bag of cornmeal sometime around 1994 and it quickly turned into a much-requested standby:
They're homely little things but they taste awesome. I prefer them without raisins, but only because I don't like raisins baked into things in general.
I also hauled out the recipe for sour-cream sugar cookies that came from Mom's Amish cookbook (Recipes from Quilt Country, I think). I forgot to get sour cream so I used one single-serve of lemon Greek yogurt plus enough plain Dannon to make one cup. It worked fine.
The only mishap was that I forgot how much they spread--they spread a lot--and they spread over the edge of the cookie sheet, dripping onto the bottom of the oven and setting it on fire. Doh! Smoked sugar cookies!
I used the leftover lemon glaze from the lemon-blueberry bread on them:
These are plain little drop cookies, too, but they're a very nice texture. Kind of fluffy.
We had a loaf of Wolferman's cranberry and citrus English muffin bread dying slowly in the fridge so I used it to re-try my bread pudding recipe. I haven't made this in ages and sometimes recipes aren't the way you remembered them, right?
Since this was a sweet, flavored, bread, I cut the sugar back to 1/4 cup (which I think turned out to be plenty sweet), reduced the cinnamon and nutmeg by half, and added half a teaspoon of almond extract.
Not bad. Not bad at all. I had to bake it longer: 45 minutes, turn, 15 minutes, turn, 15 minutes. My oven is old. I think that's a 1 1/2-quart Pyrex.
Mispickel approved:
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