THE SENTINEL Thursday, December 4, 1980 4 Page Cookie traditions began with ancient holidays Cookies are probably farmer s wife baked a handsome gingerbread man. He had plump raisins for eyes, a nice Europe started it by im- almond for a nose and printing small pieces of currant buttons on his with animal coat. After he came out of dough shapes that had been the oven, all fragrant and carved in wooden blocks brown, she gave him a and molds. . . rosy mouth with pink Modern, beautifully icing, then placed him on shaped and decorated the window will to cool, springerle and spritz are She'd hardly turned her the descendants of those back when he sprang to early cookies. So are the life, jumped off the sill, cookier cutters that are shouting: used for "Run, run, fast as you cookies. can, The word cookie comes You can't catch me, to us from the Dutch, I'm the gingerbread "koekje," a form of man!" "kock," meaning cake. So, at Christmas time, So cookies are small, children all over the sweet, flat or only slightly world dream of catching raised "little cakes." that gingerbread man. Throughout the years, Variations are popular, cookies have taken on too, as in Belgium's what could be called "Engel Kock," cookies national characteristics. baked in angel shapes, Those from France are "Specaloos" molded like and fancy dainty; Santa Claus or the Spanish cookies are thin Austrian "Krampus," and German their name for the spicy. cookies may be thin and gingerbread man. dainty or lage and hearty Moravian children were with plenty of fruits and especially fond of the nuts. Scandinavian dark, spicy cookies forcookies are rich and but- med like men, animals or tery, with emphasis on birds. Whatever the shape, shape. the important point is Gingerbread Types Another cookie that's a that yet another kind of great favorite during the Christmas cookie was holidays is the ginger- added to those already bread man. A charming mentioned. This was the children's story tell us spicy, dark, rich cookie that on Christmas eve the that might be more cake- - V i 1 w f r r & . 4 v space. Some can go in the freezer while others do well in airtight tins on a cool cupboard or pantry shelf. You'll need them for entertaining, snacks and gifts. Like homemakers of other times and places, this year's bakers will save for butter and sugar so they'll have enough for a generous supply. And, when cookies are made with butter, even in advance, they'll only develop their flavor fully as they wait to wish everyone a Merry, Merry If you want cookies to taste as good after storage as when freshly baked, use butter. In fact, butter cookies taste better when they are stored, because the butter flavor is allowed to develop. MtlCfS GOOD DEC. $3.Q9 COUPON CUSTOM!! t t'Mt PC , g MO O 10 0 UBCHASC 1 lb. 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