guess what a 78 year old dude does in December?

RRP

yup...bake Christmas cookies carrying on a family tradition!!

This stack (minus having eaten some "tests" is 19 dozen.

6 hours making and baking and 2 hours clean up. Hope to make some friends happy again with my sharing. BTW this has been a Pratt family tradition my Mother started in 1951 and I took over in the 1980's when she no longer could.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS...my cyber egger friends!!!

Ragingirishman2

I was wondering if anyone was going to post any baking or cookies soon. I’m planning to egg 3 racks of ribs on Friday, I’m going to experiment with some rub layering. Then this weekend my daughter and I will begin our Christmas cookie baking. Yours look delicious

caliking

Whoa!!

JohnInCarolina

RRP said:

This stack (minus having eaten some "tests" is 19 dozen.

Ron I like your approach to quality control!

dmchicago

A wonderful tradition and beautiful treats!

lkapigian

Awesome Ron

lousubcap

Great tradition.  Those cookies look fantastic.  

MaskedMarvel

Fantastic!!

Canugghead

Wow 24 Likes, wonderful that your Mother shared her recipe and you kept the tradition alive.

SGH

RRP said:

My inner slob and former fat self really likes this ole buddy 👍

StillH2OEgger

Those look wonderful -- and now I've got a craving all of the sudden.

shtgunal3

Nice Ron!

Ozzie_Isaac

Awesome!  Very cool tradition.  Will be making some folks very happy.

lkapigian

FWIW, I did have some other guesses 

JohnInCarolina

Ron I think you need to share the recipe on those cookies.  They look pretty friggin good on the screen!

SGH

lkapigian said:

FWIW, I did have some other guesses 

I did too. I didn’t say them because I didn’t want to kill his thread. 

lkapigian

SGH said:

lkapigian said:

FWIW, I did have some other guesses 

I did too. I didn’t say them because I didn’t want to kill his thread. 

LoL

RRP

JohnInCarolina said:

Ron I think you need to share the recipe on those cookies.  They look pretty friggin good on the screen!

Mrs Pratt’s HOLIDAY BILLY GOATS 

From a recipe in the Kansas City Star in 1950 – though slightly modified

1 cup margarine (I prefer original ICBINB in stick form – real butter just doesn’t work in this recipe for some reason)
1 cup sugar 
2 whole eggs 
1 t vanilla 
2½ cups sifted all purpose flour 
1 t baking soda 
1/8 t salt 
1 t ground cinnamon 
1/4 t ground cloves 
2 T sour milk 
2.5 cups chopped walnuts 
1 lb. Sunsweet chopped dates 

Cream margarine and sugar well; add vanilla plus eggs one at a time and beat with electric mixer at medium speed for 2 or 3 minutes until light and fluffy.

 Sift flour, soda, salt, and spices and mix thoroughly while still dry.  Add dry ingredients to egg & sugar mixture along with the sour milk. (If you don’t have any sour milk, add 1 t vinegar to 2 T of milk and mix; then use 2 T of that.) Blend well. Add walnuts and dates and mix well by hand as this is really stiff and you want to keep from pulverizing the nuts. Drop cookie mixture by teaspoonfuls on to a greased cookie sheet (take a stick of butter and merely rub it on the cookie sheet). Bake at 300 degrees for 16 minutes. Texture will be chewy and NOT crunchy!

Yield: 8 to 9 dozen cookies

Storage hint: These cookies will stay moist and chewy for many days if you just store them in a tightly sealed container like a Tupperware and place a piece of fresh bread inside every other day. The cookies extract the moisture from the bread and surprisingly will make the bread as hard as Melba toast!

 

Courtesy RRP – Dunlap, IL

shtgunal3

If you omit the nuts, would they be nanny goats?

RRP

Thanks...while I had checked the "24 likes" just to show my wife earlier today I now see "someone in power here" must have hated cookies or my 24 count and cut my THREAD popularity count back to 12! KINDA strange way to run a thread in my way of running a forum ...

alaskanassasin

IC 32 likes @rrp if that’s what you are referring to. Also possibly the most likes I’ve ever seen on a post. You have my address if you need a place to send cookies 

Legume

alaskanassasin said:

IC 32 likes @rrp if that’s what you are referring to. Also possibly the most likes I’ve ever seen on a post. You have my address if you need a place to send cookies 

Looks like 34 now.  It only ever displays 10 or so names, so you can’t see them all.

alaskanassasin

Ron usually only shows her the first 12.

Philly35

Happy Holidays to you as well Ron. 

bluebird66

Thanks for the recipe Ron, going to make it this weekend.

littlerascal56

Ron- shows 42 likes now!  Has to be a record!

SGH

43 likes and 2 dislikes. I wonder who the 2 dumbazz’s are that don’t like cookies?

Yno

I thought I was doing well. I made a batch of eight dozen molasses sugar cookies. I am getting ready to do another eight dozen batch. My mother made these from the time I can remember and I had never seen them anywhere before, but the recipe surfaced on this forum a while back. Anyway, everyone I give them to thinks they are unique and delicious.

That is eight dozen PLUS the QC samples!!!