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Christmas Cookies 2017
Thursday before, I made sponge cake for Petit Fors and Neopolitans.
Friday I iced the Neopolitans and made the dough for:
Butter Balls....double batch
Cornstarch....single batch
Kipfuls.....single batch
Thumbprints....double batch
On Saturday the 9th,
Gina, Clara, AnnMary, Lisa joined Joan and I:
AnnMary iced the petit fors
Gina did butterballs
Clara did cornstarch....some pressed and some cookie cutters
Cookies for Jeneve’s PCC
The Phelps Community Center has a fund raiser where people like us donate cookies and others purchase them. Jeneve and family have donated each year for the past 3 years.
Today we made:
1/4 sponge cake served up at coconut covered petit fors (6 dozen)
Double recipe of Butter Balls (6 dozen)
Double recipe of Cornstarch cookies (12 dozen)
Double recipe of Lemon Iced Sugar Cookies (6 dozen)
Single recipe of Finger Sandwich Butter Cookies (3 dozen singles, not sandwiches)
Single recipe of Gramma’s Sugar Cookie Cutouts (4 dozen)
Soup for Thanksgiving—2017
November 19, 2017
Soup with little meatballs for Thanksgiving Dinner
Gina, Clara, AnnMary, Joan and Dennis
4-5 pounds of ground pork
13 Heads of escarole*
10 boxes of broth
2 pounds of carrots
1 large head of celery
6 large onions
10 pounds of chicken
Gina began cleaning the escarole*
Clara and AnnMary chopped onions, carrots, celery
AnnMary and Dennis cooked the onions
Clara helped her mom clean the escarole*
