Easter Cookies

Swedish Pepper Cookies are one of our favorite recipes ever!  Today I whipped up a batch of bunnies, and thought I'd share the recipe. (Click on recipe to enlarge, and then right click to save recipe to your computer).

These cookies are so yummy! Half of them never even make it to the cookie jar!  I made them for our daughter's wedding last March, as well as for our son's wedding in July.  They were a hit, and I think you'll like them too!

Happy Easter! 

Primitive blessings,

Laurie

P.S.  Here's a photo of one of our new lambs!

Just a little sentimental today. . .

Today our firstborn is twenty seven years old!  I don't know where the time has gone!  Wasn't I just this age?  (I was actually five years younger than that in this picture!)  Lots of changes happening, and that's probably part of it.  In 6 weeks our babies - the twins - will graduate from high school.  This has always been a sentimental time for me with our other three children, but there was always the babies.  They were little.  It was a LONG time until they'd graduate.  Well, now the time has come!  We've so enjoyed all of their high school activities!  They are very active in band/jazz, sports, extra-curricular stuff.  My van is always on the road taking me to something that they are involved in!  (Literally....they just got their driver's licenses a week ago, and they aren't driving alone yet).  I am so proud of them all, but if I could just turn the clock back a dozen years or so, I sure would.....

So, about Ashley - since it's her day!  She is a middle school teacher and track coach.  She's always been an ideal daughter.  Sweet, helpful, giving, and we're so proud of her!  She's coming for dinner and cake this evening after work.  She requested a Boston Cream Pie, and daughter Kari is making it for her.  Sounds like a good recipe.  (See it here).  I'll let you know how it turns out!

Our weather is to be in the mid 80's this weekend!  It's about time!

Primitive blessings,

Laurie

Grandma's Cookies

With little Girl Scouts haunting the doorway of practically every store I entered yesterday, I got to thinking about MY favorite cookie! Nope. Not sold by the billions by friendly little girls toting boxes of Tagalongs, the always popular Thin Mints, or Do-Si-Dos, but my Grandma's Gingersnaps!

We lost Grandma over three years ago. Last week she would've been 95 years old. She was a very good cook, very crafty, and so much fun to spend time with! I miss her so much!

Here is a craft idea that I came up with to share with other family members. I took an empty pickle jar (wash it out really good!) and filled it with some of Grandma's delicious cookies. I made them a little smaller than usual, so they would fit in the jar nicely. Next I made a tag with a photo of Grandma, a fun poem about Grandmas, and added her recipe. I decorated up the tag with bits of lace, old buttons, and some vintage rick rack. I covered the jar lid with a scrap of fabric cut into a circle. (Click on photos for a larger view).

Here is Grandma's Gingersnap recipe. So yummy!!!

Grandma's Gingersnaps
3/4 cup shortening
1/2 tsp. salt
1 cup sugar
1 beaten egg
1/4 cup molasses
2 cups flour
3 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. ginger
1 tsp. cinnamon

Cream shortening, salt, and sugar. Add beaten egg and molasses. Sift together dry ingredients and stir into creamed mixture. Roll into balls and then into sugar. Do not flatten. Bake at 300 degrees until done. Enjoy!

Prim blessings,
Laurie