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Welcome to ... THE Club Don’t put this down! You’ll have to bend over to pick it back up! Welcome to ... FALL 2021 Seniors Save FLU SEASON If you are over 65 or have an underlying medical condition, call to get more information on this season’s FLU SHOT. 20% OFF Regular Priced Items In-Store Every Thursday of every month! LONDON ROAD PHARMACY Locally Owned and Operated www.londonroadpharmacy.com * Every surface & product is disinfected daily for your safety! Tammy Maure 1249 London Rd 519-491-6778 In Praise of the Cookie By Corrina Austin, St. Thomas from Daytriipping March-April 2013 My mother used to make sugar cookies. If she could get them out of the oven on time, they were these melty, sweet, buttery things. Most often, they were as black as hockey pucks on the bottom. The oven wasn’t very good, and she would often get busy doing other things and forget to take them out. My brother and sister and I would pinch large clumps of dough out of the bowl when she was mixing them up. Cookie dough… why is it always better than the actual cookie? My mother lost the recipe for her sugar cookies and I’ve tried many recipes over the years, trying to duplicate it. But, as of right now, the search is still on. Mom did not like to cook or bake. It wasn’t her thing. She’d rather empty the china cabinet and clean it all out, or dig a garden. I loved to bake. It was my desperate childhood wish to get an Easy Bake Oven. Instead, my mother bought me cake mixes and let me use the real one. Every Saturday morning, I got out of bed, went straight to the kitchen, and made a cake. I baked my own fruit cake for my wedding. In older days (older than mine), this was a common custom, to give out fruit cake slices as wedding favours. When it was “cured,” I cut the cake into slices and wrapped them in shiny red and green paper (I was married four days before Christmas) and trimmed each piece like a Christmas gift, complete with a thank you tag. I procured my husband’s grandmother’s Rain on the roof with a sound like singing, And here in the kitchen is something nice, Patterned with flour and nuts and raisins, Sprinkled with sugar, fragrant with spice. Little boy’s round eyes stare at the oven, Little dog’s tail goes thump on the floor, Little boy’s hand goes tug at your apron, It’s hours till lunch–please, just one more? Crisp and warm with a fragrance of cinnamon, One like a heart and one like a star… Rain on the roof with a sound like singing, Mother is filling the cookie jar. Says it all, doesn’t it? much-guarded recipe for light fruit cake for the occasion. We still make it every Christmas, almost 28 years later. I’m certainly not a fancy baker– fondant scares the heck out of me, and my pastry is a nightmare. I bake simply: coffee cakes, brownies, and cookies. Lots of cookies. My recipes for Toll House and peanut butter cookies are etched on my brain–I haven’t used a recipe for them in years. I have a friend who keeps a beautiful glass cookie jar on her kitchen counter, always stocked with homemade cookies. A few weekends ago, I went and bought one for my house, and it’s been kept full ever since. I love this idea. It seems old-fashioned, but I like the idea of people coming home after a long day and smelling cookies baking. I know it’s very 1950’s, but it seems like a nice way to be welcomed home. “Hi! I made cookies today.” Now, there’s a way to get a tired, grumpy person to smile. Several years ago, someone gave me an old brown cookbook from 1948 that they’d found in the back of a drawer somewhere, published by a local “Friendship Group.” The cover is so faded I can hardly make out the letters any more. It has recipes for everything under the sun: “Steamed Ginger Pudding,” “Under the Sea Salad,” “Ice- Box Rolls,” “Husband Cake,” “Bachelor Buttons,” “Apple Pan Dowdy,” “Jellied Tongue,” “Nobility Sauce”–even “Cold Saccharin Pickles.” There is even a section for household concoctions, like “How to Fill Floor Cracks” and “Mustard Plaster.” While I’ve never attempted to fix things around the house or create home remedies 1948 style, I have tried several recipes from this book, and they’ve all been delicious. The “Apple Pudding” and “Seven Day Sweet Pickles” (made in my husband’s grandfather’s old sauerkraut crock) have been especially successful. My favourite part of the old brown recipe book is near the front, before the recipes: a quaint, reminiscent poem called “Kitchen Chant.” I’ve googled it many times, and I’ve never come up with an author. P A G E 30 Popular Slogans... Lay’s Potato Chips - Betcha can’t eat just one.
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