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Readers participating in Grandma’s Bake-a-thon have shared many wonderful memories. We are giving Grandma a great send-off to live the rest of her life after the diary ends.Today I’d like to share the awesome post that Sharon at Dirndl Skirt Gatherings did about her memories of baking Candy Cane Cookies with her mother.
One of the things that I most enjoy about Dirndl Skirt Gatherings is how Sharon infuses her art and artist’s perspective into many posts. Be sure to scroll to the bottom of the post to see her awesome holiday drawing of a woman wearing a candy cane skirt.
credit: Me and My Green Bin
Growing up in the early 1960s, and being a kind of girly-girl, I do remember I liked my food pink. And sugary. When standing in line with my mom at Acme Supermarket, the impulse buy of choice near the cash register was those awful (to me now) pink marshmallow cookies with white coconut sprinkles. This was before red dye #2 was banned.
My mother, Shirley, and me in her state-of-the-art kitchen, 1957.
But at Christmas time, we made cookies. Mom did like to bake, if not actually cook. (Hey, it was the Atomic Age, and she had better things to do, like paint!) One of my favorites from that era was candy cane cookies. We had to divide the dough, and color one half. Then keep it moist until we twisted the braids together and curved them into the cane hook. Some baking…
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Thanks again for reposting, Sheryl!
You are very welcome This post shares a wonderful family holiday baking story and is perfect for the Bake-a-thon. I really liked this post–and always enjoy Dirndl Skirt–so it was fun to have the opportunity to share it with others.
This is wonderful. I remember those cookies very well when my own daughter was three years old in 1957.
Making Candy Cane Cookies sounds like a really fun activity to do with a pre-schooler.
That is the cutest picture!
I thought the same thing. It’s a wonderful picture.
I also bake Candy Cane cookies every December with my two sons (now 18 and 20). I got the recipe from Yankee Magazine many years ago. I’ll bet somewhere I have a picture with me and my sons making them.
I wish that I’d known about these cookies when my kids were small. They look like so much fun to make.
I baked these when the kids were younger too, I always wanted to put them on the tree but they never made it!! lol
Every year I buy a box of real candy canes to put on the tree. After my adult children arrive home, they never last long on the tree. 🙂
Nothing quite like the ambiance of Christmas cookies being made ~ the candy cane cookies were always the sign that the holidays were indeed here 🙂
I agree-There’s something special about the holiday mood created by baking cookies.
The photo of the kitchen in 1957….it’s the exact same layout as MY grandmother’s kitchen right now (it’s at leasr as old as the turn of the last century). I wonder if the rest of the house matched my grandmother’s?