Calumet Sugar Cookies

 We have been really good about staying home and trying to be extra careful when we do go out.  Just before tighter restrictions were enacted (Thank you to all the boneheads and selfish jerks who put us in this position) we were able to make it out to a vintage market. It felt great to be outside! Good food! Great atmosphere! Masks and distancing everywhere! I had to stop myself from buying too much! I did snag a couple of old cooking pamphlets. Sadly, I had to leave a few behind. Danm Holiday gift giving! :)

I think the guy is a little creepy...

It's not often that I pick a recipe based on the photo. The photos usually do not make the food look very... tasty. Usually they look .... not good, very not good. But, for whatever reason, this picture called to me. These cookies looked soooooo good! I just had to make them.

 Pretty standard looking recipe but cloves and nutmeg in sugar cookies? Okay, we'll try. Naturally no time on the recipe. I'm happy there is the temp at least!

Went with milk instead of water. I'm hoping it will make a richer tasting cookie. 

Mixing, mixing, mixing...

Looking fluffy! But not very thick...and I'm suppose to roll this out? 

Well, I had to add a bit more flour to the dough to thicken it and added a lot of flour onto my marble to get it to roll out and not stick on everything. I also had to roll out the dough a little bit at a time since my marble slab is not very large.

They are looking so cute! I am excited!

I have a much larger kitchen now but still end up in a little corner. ha ha And I didn't drink all the wine. 2 are empty bottles I'm saving and 1 was used to make a jelly. I'm not talking about the third.

These baked up so perfectly! It only took about 12 minutes in the oven and I probably could have taken them out a minute or so earlier.

Cookie time!

A little crispy and a little chewy. Perfect for snacking!

I was pretty surprised by these. You will not mistake it for a spice cookie, it is definitely a sugar cookie. The spices were very subtle and definitely added a little something to them. I was afraid that the extra flour I had to add would make them tough but that wasn't the case. I would probably use less liquid next time to try get them a bit more crispier. They didn't spread much so these would probably be great for fancy cookie cutters. I might have to do these again for the holidays. I have some great vintage cookie cutters to try.

My Rating: Great! I'd make again.

Dylan's Rating: I love sugar cookies!! 

Butter Balls

Sometimes I like making fancy foods, going on the hunt for unusual (and sometimes expensive) ingredients but other times I just want to look in my cabinets and throw together what ever I have. I found this recipe from the 1940's Christmas Cookies pamphlet and it was too easy to pass up.

 All the ingredients are stuff most people have on hand. It didn't call fro as much butter and one would expect from the name. But Super Easy! And easy to mix.

The dough came together thick enough to make rolling it into little balls easy. No chilling required. The inside of the cookies are filled with brown sugar and the outside covered with white sugar. Not a good cookie for anyone watching their sugar intake!

 Old recipes do not come with nice little notes like how far to space them or if they will spread so I look a chance. It didn't feel like these would spread much but if they then I would have a few large cookies instead.

Woo Hoo! Very little spread! Smells sooooooo good....

 These turned out so cute and perfect munching size!

I try my hardest to let my cookies cool before eating. It doesn't always work. These were amazing straight out of the oven! A nice, crispy outside surrounding a warm, soft center. After they cooled they were hard crunchy although not in a bad way. The texture reminded me of hard ginger cookies. Even though 'butter' is in the name they tasted more like a sugar cookie. Very good! These are the kind of cookies you bake and throw in a cookie jar just before the kids come bursting home.

My Rating: Keeper! Simple and delicious

Friends and Family Rating: "Your best yet!" "Yummy" "Can I have a copy of this recipe?"