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Dec. 10th, 2013 08:04 pmToday's request: Your favourite holiday cookies/biscuits to bake (and why! Especially tasty? Family history?) from ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
fleurrochard
I think this might be a very short response. Okay, knowing me, that seems unlikely, but, well, I don't bake cookies, or biscuits, for holidays or any other days.
I do, it is true, have a yen to do so. I actually bought suitable food colourings with the intention of making Unicorn Poop Cookies. It is possible I shall be the only person who will *eat* Unicorn Poop Cookies, though, that said, Bun is pretty open-minded and Beast will eat anything. And yet...
I like the American custom of producing delicious cookies for Christmas. I remember with great pleasure the charming little box of delicious treats thatquiet000001 gave me several years ago. But I never actually seem to have time to get it done. Possibly this year I shall set Bun to the task, as she and Boy are planning (I think) to be home on the Saturday before Christmas, and they will need to be kept occupied. Not that Boy will undertake such domestic usefulness without prodding, I fear, and obviously I shall have to intervene at some point during the Unicorn Poop Cookie construction process, but still.
The thing is, it's never been cookies, here. It's mince pies. I think I have probably made mince pies, in the dim and distant past. I have vague memories of customising mincemeat from a purchased jar (not that it tasted particularly better, or indeed, different). I have very fond memories of eating the mince pies my Grandma made—as I've certainly rhapsodised before, her pastry was *awesome*. My father in law had a tendency to make his pastry with brown flour (after his diabetes diagnosis, anyway), and it was not, actually, very nice, so his mince pies just weren't much of a pleasure to eat. Anyway, Grandma's gone and Grandpa is in Australia, so any mince pies eaten in this house are likely to have been bought from Sainsburys or the local baker (though apparently we have a new Aldi supermarket in town, which I must certainly try). With sufficient brandy-infused cream, mince pies are pretty reasonable eating.
Yeah, I thought that'd be short. Sorry, Fleur!
fleurrochardI think this might be a very short response. Okay, knowing me, that seems unlikely, but, well, I don't bake cookies, or biscuits, for holidays or any other days.
I do, it is true, have a yen to do so. I actually bought suitable food colourings with the intention of making Unicorn Poop Cookies. It is possible I shall be the only person who will *eat* Unicorn Poop Cookies, though, that said, Bun is pretty open-minded and Beast will eat anything. And yet...
I like the American custom of producing delicious cookies for Christmas. I remember with great pleasure the charming little box of delicious treats that
quiet000001 gave me several years ago. But I never actually seem to have time to get it done. Possibly this year I shall set Bun to the task, as she and Boy are planning (I think) to be home on the Saturday before Christmas, and they will need to be kept occupied. Not that Boy will undertake such domestic usefulness without prodding, I fear, and obviously I shall have to intervene at some point during the Unicorn Poop Cookie construction process, but still.The thing is, it's never been cookies, here. It's mince pies. I think I have probably made mince pies, in the dim and distant past. I have vague memories of customising mincemeat from a purchased jar (not that it tasted particularly better, or indeed, different). I have very fond memories of eating the mince pies my Grandma made—as I've certainly rhapsodised before, her pastry was *awesome*. My father in law had a tendency to make his pastry with brown flour (after his diabetes diagnosis, anyway), and it was not, actually, very nice, so his mince pies just weren't much of a pleasure to eat. Anyway, Grandma's gone and Grandpa is in Australia, so any mince pies eaten in this house are likely to have been bought from Sainsburys or the local baker (though apparently we have a new Aldi supermarket in town, which I must certainly try). With sufficient brandy-infused cream, mince pies are pretty reasonable eating.
Yeah, I thought that'd be short. Sorry, Fleur!