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Simple Holiday Cookies
Characteristic of a holiday; festive
vacation: spend or take a vacation
A day of festivity or recreation when no work is done
vacation: leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure; "we get two weeks of vacation every summer"; "we took a short holiday in Puerto Rico"
a day on which work is suspended by law or custom; "no mail is delivered on federal holidays"; "it's a good thing that New Year's was a holiday because everyone had a hangover"
A vacation
A small sweet cake, typically round, flat, and crisp
(cookie) a short line of text that a web site puts on your computer's hard drive when you access the web site
A packet of data sent by an Internet server to a browser, which is returned by the browser each time it subsequently accesses the same server, used to identify the user or track their access to the server
A person of a specified kind
(cookie) the cook on a ranch or at a camp
(cookie) any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term)
having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved; "a simple problem"; "simple mechanisms"; "a simple design"; "a simple substance"
any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties
elementary: easy and not involved or complicated; "an elementary problem in statistics"; "elementary, my dear Watson"; "a simple game"; "found an uncomplicated solution to the problem"
A medicinal herb, or a medicine made from one
Family Tradition
These cookies (a simple recipe with anise seed from a Grandma Leif ?)...this tradition of the women making, baking, frosting and decorating them...has been in my family for over 100 years. My great grandma grew up doing it....my grandmother did....my mother did.....I did and now Emma does. I remember sitting at my Nana's table every night for a week after supper decorating cookies. My Nana was very particular about how each cookie was decorated and how many of each cookie was placed in each box. My family would give the shirt size wrapped boxes to everyone they knew plus family. That was a lot of people! Not to mention all the cookies that I "required". Now, after doing this for so many years, I understand ...as does Emma already.... why the elder women in my family never ate them. You get pretty sick of them. I still enjoy the "trees" though. They have always been my favorite ones. They just taste better!
Most Preferable
"I am still convinced that a good, simple, homemade cookie is preferable to all the store-bought cookies one can find." ~ James Beard