Comments on: Christmas cookie exchange and U.S. Senate appointment update

By: Susan

Susan — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 20:07:36 +0000

You are so ambitious, Historiann! I have one cookie I bake, and then a cake…
Hope you ate well

By: Indyanna

Indyanna — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 00:15:53 +0000

Same to you, Historiann! I haven’t repaired to my test kitchen(s) yet, but if and when anything comes of it, I’ll send along a sample box for approval at HQ. One thing about these babies–for me anyway–is that they can’t get stale. (They’re pretty dry-ish, so maybe people think they start stale?). We used to pack them in big ceramic crocks and then sort of forget about them, except for me–I’d just gnaw on them all winter. Whatever.

By: Roxie

Roxie — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 18:47:08 +0000

And a hearty hohoho to you and yours, Historiann. Still hoping your senate bid works out, but if it doesn’t here’s to another great year in the blogosphere for all of us in 2009.

By: Historiann

Historiann — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 15:22:39 +0000

Merry Christmas, Indyanna and cgeye–I hope Erica’s Grandma’s fruitcake works out for you! (And good luck with the Fatigmans–which sounds like a great name for a Christmas cookie.)

By: cgeye

cgeye — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 07:42:43 +0000

This weekend, from your link: Fruitcake.

Quality dried fruits soak in rum as I type.

By: Indyanna

Indyanna — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:11:49 +0000

p.s. Fat chance! I just googled the thing on chowhounds.com and got linked through to the recipe on cooks.com. So I guess somebody else scanned them. Now I guess I’ll have to see if the oven works; no, wait, this is a deep-fried stovetop thing. I know that works!

By: Indyanna

Indyanna — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:03:17 +0000

They look virtually good enough to virtually eat! My favorite remembered recipe is for “Fatigman” (which we of course called Fattymen), a Danish shortbread cookie twisted into a sort of trappezoidal figure 8 shape. The recipe is on a dough-stained index card in the family archive… somewhere around here, anyway, but probably not realistically retrievable. We should have scanned them, I guess, but scan meant something different then.

Just to report from the East: the Kennedy express has apparently slowed from surge strength, buffetted by City/Upstate tensions, arcane Gothamite factional dynamics extending back to Leisler’s “Rebellion” in 1689, and I guess the fact that you really CAN push a constituency of one a bit too hard. The gov. says he won’t appoint anyone until after Hillary is confirmed, which–together with the standoff in Minnesota and the mess in Illinois–will leave the Democratic juggernaut a few bricks shy of a battalion in late January when the Republican counterattack on the stimulus package is expected. So we should all get working on Gov. Ritter and his comments hot.line!!