Friday, October 28, 2011

Pumpkin cookies...

Okay this really is totally random... Today as I was mixing up bread dough I was thinking of what else I could bake for my family & with it being fall pumpkin roll came to mind. Never fail when ever I think of making something with pumpkin this memory comes back.
 My sister Waneta & I were only 3 years apart & as we entered our teen years we finally became best friends.:) Now every once in a GREAT while we would get a baking itch. The kitchen would become a disaster zone [humm I wonder where Mom hid while we were doing this] we would not use common sense & just bake one batch of something, clean up the kitchen & be done. Oh no, we would bake several things & be totally sick of baking when we finally got it all cleaned up again.
 Back to pumpkin, as I remember this happened one day when Mom was not at home. But Waneta was old enough to drive... [Wonder why she wasn't at work?] Okay we decide we are going to bake pumpkin cookies, problem # 1 we couldn't find any pumpkin. Now this was not so unusual, Mom was not big on keeping a lot of unnecessary things on hand. She had a very small kitchen & very little room to store those kind of things. Okay so now we have to run to town before we can start, town meant the little town of Townville [If you are from SC think Donalds] [If you are from CO think... smaller then Olathe] Okay we get to the "Red & White", we thoroughly check all four of their shelves & they had the nerve to think this is a seasonal item & no pumpkin was to to be found! All right back out to the car we drive about 5 miles in the other direction to an other little hole in the wall store. There we again walked up & down the isles several times [never asking the owner for help in locating the item we were looking for][Dad would stop in there daily to "chew the fat" with the owner & he informed Dad that his 2 daughters were in there that morning. Took inventory of the store & left with no purchases :)] nope no canned pumpkin here either! Okay by now "Brukers" is open & we knew they would have it.This was a bent & dent store that always had anything you don't use all 12 months of the year.:) Sure enough they had cases of the canned pumpkin we needed.:) Back home we go, all goes well we got all the cookies baked. Now we look at the icing recipe... Humm what on earth is this? 10x sugar???????? Mom had some cookbooks that were meant for experienced cooks only & this was one of those. If I remember right it was some vague directions like, oleo, milk & 10x sugar to desired consistency. Okay the only thing we new x in math stood for was times, so we put 10 times what??? Now let me tell you we even called the big sister & asked her for advice on what 10x sugar is. Nope she'd never heard of it either. We finally decided to put in 10 times as much sugar as milk.:) But one of us wisely remember that you use powdered sugar for icing not granulated. It turned out fine, we iced our cookies & when Mom came home we told her about the weird recipe. She HOWLED with laughter!!! Then she explained to her 16 & 13 year old daughters that 10x sugar is a term used for powdered sugar.:) I have NEVER forgotten what 10x sugar means since that.:)
 Isn't it funny how silly things just never leave your memory?

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