The best cookie in this book is Mary's sugar cookies and the thumbprint in this book are excellent. Molasses crinkle cookies are great. Those are some of the best in the book. Because I have a original book.
Since it's just my husband and me, we keep cookie dough in the freezer year round. It goes straight from the freezer into our breville oven for 10 minutes, 4-6 at a time, so that we can have that delicious treat, without the temptation of eating an entire batch.
I freeze chocolate chip.cookie balls and give them to my kids. I write the baking time and degrees on the container in marker. Then they can bake them for their families whenever they want.
I remember decorating Christmas cookies with my siblings in the late 1960s-70s with silver balls. Apparently, they were not supposed to be eaten, the fine print said "For decorative purposes only." We used to eat them like candy. I guess they contained mercury! We all survived. I know this is a typical Gen X/Boomer Survival Story. 😅
@@dianaarmitage512 My dad used to say, "You kids have it easy. I used to walk five miles to school in the snow!" Little did we know we could've answered back, "Yeah? Did you eat poison mercury balls disguised as candy and survive?"
We used this cookbook in my childhood. My Mom then gave it to me when I got married, 45 years ago. I baked cookies from this book while raising our 3 boys. Now I have gifted my Daughter-in- laws with the cookbook to bake for my grandchildren. It’s a treasure!
My mother always made most of our Christmas cookies from this cookbook. Russian tea cakes, thumbprints, etc. I loved looking at the pictures and was intrigued by the water color type painted sugar cookies, but she never tackled those.
I always wanted to make those too, but we never did. As a child that seemed to be the best idea ever! As a parent now, I think I know why my mom never tackled them!
I have my "Trig-O-Matic Cookie Gun by Cookie Chef" in its original box from about 1967. It has the price on it in pen - $6.95. It's aluminum and shaped like a gun, similar to yours but with another part to the handle so you can use one hand to force the dough out. It was made in Cleveland Ohio. I use it every year. Will have to make the chocolate ones!
I found a copy of this book on the bookshelf in our finished basement! I don’t know if it was my Mom’s or her elder sisters. Auntie made many trays of cookies each year as gifts and would spend the early Autumn planning all the varieties she would make. An anecdote: after Mom died earlier this year, I couldn’t find her Will. Mid-Summer I was looking on THAT shelf and low & behold what was in the Cookybook?! Yes, her Will! She wasn’t supposed to go down flights of stairs since her Bypass in 2012 but she must have gone there when I was not home and I can’t think why.
i have used this cooky book for more years than I can remember. I absolutely love the recipes and my family loves them too. I have worn out a couple copies of this book. I have got many compliments for them when taking them to gettogethers or serve them in my home. I know everyone has a delicious chocolate chip cooky recipe bu I always get asked for the recipe of mine from this book. People have said that they like their cooky recipe but this one is better than theirs. I treasure this book so much. So many cookies--so many memories.
A few days after watching this episode I found a Cooky Book at a library sale. Sixth printing with the spiral edge so some pages are not perfect but I am so happy to have found it. Only one dollar! Thank you for sharing your love of this book. I’m sure that it will be one of my favorites also.
I loved the little story about your grandma! My mother is 91 years old. She keeps a giant candy dish full of of starlight peppermints in her little entryway in her assisted living apartment for nurses, aides, and other visitors. I buy pretty huge bags from Walmart & have them delivered to her. She goes through on average 4 lbs of them a month! She just loves doing it because people drop by all day long for a mint, and I'm happy to supply them. Also, I've commented about this before but I love the Betty Crocker Cooky Book. My mother has her original and I have one she gave me as a gift. I've also given my daughter one. Now my little granddaughter loves looking through it with her dad and choosing a cookie for the family to bake.
My childhood best friend bought me this softcover recipe book for Christmas in the late 1970s when we were twelve years old. I bought her a glossy poster of kittens. She passed away at age 44. I miss her and her talented festive cookie making skills ❤
I grew up with this Cooky Book and loved to look at the pictures. My favorite cookie is the pineapple filled cookies. My mom would make them every Christmas. I looked for years for this book and now I have a copy of my own. The other day I saw it at Barnes and Noble amongst the holiday items. It brings back such wonderful memories. Every cookie I've made in this cookbook has been tasty.
This video just appeared in my YT feed! I LOVE the Cooky Book! I think that is where my love for cookbooks first started. My Mom had this and as a child I would sit and just flip through the pages. This book was basically only used at Christmas when she made Chocolate Crinkles and Hermits. I have her original book (now falling apart) and newer copy to replace it. Thanks for sharing!!!
My mom always made the Russian Teacake and Canadian Oatmeal Shortbread cookies during the holidays. They were my dad's favorites; and my sister and I would make them for him after our mom died. Mom made the shortbread cookies as drop cookies. I have both my mom and grandma's copy of the cooky book and bought my sister the re-issue.
I have a first edition that has handwritten notes by my grandmother. Priceless to me. Use it year round as I bake for a homeless shelter. Love this book.
My absolute favorite cookbook, given to me by my cousin our senior year Christmas over 50 years ago. Many of the cookies are Christmas favorites in our family. Snickerdoodlrs, Russian tea cakes, chocolate crinkles, sugar cookies, molasses crinkles, gingerbread men, candy cane cookies, filled date cookies etc My youngest son made snickerdoodles, his favorite, for his 3rd grade birthday party at school 30 years ago. So many precious memories baking cookies from this book with my loved ones through the years.🎄
I have so many memories as a child in the 60s of pouring through the Betty Crocker cookie cookbook! My mom always let my sister and I pick out a recipe each that she (and eventually we) would bake. It was magical. I still have our well-worn copy, cover falling off but I still peruse it every Christmas season. 😊
I think this video is going to one of your most watched videos over time. I needed your video tonight. I was having a horrible, accident filled, trying to get my tree up and dinner made, evening. It seemed nothing was going right. Needing a break, I sat down with my (mostly horrible) dinner to watch your video. Your energy, excitement to use your favorite cookbook , and cheerful Christmas apron, made your cookie making even more joyful. It brought memories back for me about my mom making cookies, and me making the same cookies for my children. Now they make them for their children. You are a good teacher, clear instructions, and helpful with the little details. You helped me bring some cheer back into my evening, and have motivated me to try some new cookie recipes. Now that my own normally cheerful self is back, I am going to try to make the lemon snowdrops. Something new (old) to add to my repertoire. Thanks so much for a great video. I look forward to other Christmas videos. It would be awesome to see you make the cookie house. I wish you and family a wonderful, joyful holiday season!
Thank you!! Ordered the book! It’s always fun to go back to the original recipes, plus we know more techniques and have better appliances now. My Betty Crocker baking in 1969 as a bride wasn’t the best, but I could do some cookies ok lol. Don’t ask about the cake 🤣🤣
I can barely make a decent drop cookie, so I have always been to intimidated to try a cookie press or rolling dough and using cookie cutters, but your obvious joy in making these cookies was infectious and a delight to watch-as usual. 💕
I was born in 1963 and still have my Mom's original Wear-ever Cookie Gun. My grandkids will be here tomorrow to help bake this year's Christmas Spritz cookies!
My cookbook club is using this book for our cookie swap this month! We each chose 2 cookies from this book to make! My 2 choices, and holiday favorites, lemon squares and gingerbread boys!❤️
I grew up baking from that book! I'm sure Mom's copy is an original version. Besides chocolate crinkles, snickerdoodles, and thumb prints, my favorites are the molasses crinkles and the peppermint candy canes.
I’ve had that cookbook for over 40 years, and it’s still my favorite! And that’s my go-to snickerdoodle recipe! That’s my favorite cookie ever, and my grandmother always made them for me when we’d go to visit when I was growing up. Sweet memories!!
Oh, I love the Betty Crocker Cooky Book! My mom has a copy from the 1970s, when she got married. I haven't made anything from that book in a long time; I think I need to make some snickerdoodles this season!
This will be a hard year for the cookie baking. My mother passed away in July, and baked so many of the Cooky Book recipes for 60 years. We’ll be gathering as a family in a couple of weeks to bake and remember. 🥲 Particular favorites that only get deployed at Christmas include Viennese Shortbread (p.22), Russian Teacakes (p.25), and the “Marzipan Cookies” (no actual marzipan involved, p.69). For those it was always the strawberry variant. The rest of the year, depending on my mood, we make snickerdoodles, molasses crinkles, and the date-oatmeal cookies from p25, except with chocolate chips swapped for the dates, at which point they are my favorite oatmeal chocolate chips cookies.
ANNA FIRST EDITION???? I’m so happy for you!! And 5 dollars!? Omg amazing. Amazing news! What a find! Great video as always and congrats on the treasure
My Norwegian friends love Snickerdoodles-they call them “those cinnamon cookies.” They are not popular in France, but a friend’s daughter said she saw them on TikTok and wanted to try them. She came over to make them with me. She loved them too!
I was waiting for you to show the cookie house 😀 I received this Cookie book as a wedding present back in 1971 and my kids loved looking through it but the favorite picture was the cookie house. I still have this book and look through it now and then but it’s somewhat fragile. When my daughter grew up I bought her the “replica” version.
My mother and grandmother use to bake dozens and dozens of cookies and many different kinds of candy at Christmas time. They made spritz cookies but they called them cookie press cookies. Theirs had a screw crank to push the cookies out. They were always so dainty, buttery and delicious!
Spritz, snickerdoodles, crinkles, and the candy cane cookies were made every Christmas. We would also tried others from time to time, but those were the basics. Great memories baking with my mom and siblings. 😊
I love that book too! I have my Mom's original copy and share the same memories as you. I loved looking through it as a child. Hard to pick a favorite, but I do love the candy cane cookies and spritz! Thank you for sharing. 🎄🍪
Omg I think my mom still has that very cookbook. She used it all during my childhood. Snickerdoodles was the very first thing I learned to bake in my jr high home economics class!
My favorite cookies are springerle. There is a recipe in this book, but it's a little different from mine. Mine uses anise extract and baker's ammonia as a rising agent. My mom made these every Christmas. Her parents were from Germany and my mom learned from her mom. Now my daughter and I both make them. Love spritz too.
My mom had this original cookie book. We use to look at it like it was the wish book. One year for Christmas, I copied all the pages and put them in protective sleeves and put them in a binder so both of my sisters could have a copy since the original fell apart. Would still love to get a new copy or find an original for a good price.😊
My kids looked through it like the “wish book”, too. Brings back good memories to me. Those were good times when kids would entertain themselves with a cookie book rather than a tablet.
I used to make a butter cookie recipe for the cookie press. Mine was power. Then instead of vanilla I used fresh ground cardamom. My family is Norwegian and loved them.
For many, many years, my mom made the Candy Cane Cookies every year at Christmas. They are delicious. They are also a soul-destroying amount of work to make. When she decided she wasn't going to make them any more, I completely understood. I miss them, but not so much that I've ever been tempted to make them myself. My three favorite non-Christmas cookies from this book are Orange Drops, Malted Milk Rounds, and Vermont Maple Cookies.
For me it was the Better Homes and Gardens Cookie Cookbook. It love it so much that when I found another copy at a rummage sale I bought it as a back up if my mom's copy dies. There is a recipe in there for Santa's Whiskers that is so yummy and I need to make them again
OMG, I have that cookie book and have been using it since I was 11. My favorite is on page 124 - Butter Horn Cookies. I'm 71 and it wouldn't be Christmas without them.
Your mixing bowls are so nostalgic. A wonderful core childhood memory of mine was baking Christmas cookies on an early release school day in December with my Mom and brothers. My Mom would have the dough ready by the time we got home and she’d play Christmas music on the record player. I miss my Mom who has passed but I’m so grateful for this happy memory. 🎄🔔🎄
I’ve never made the chocolate Spritz before… always wanted to. I make the green Christmas tree and red daisy (poinsettia) Spritz every Christmas! 🎄 🌺 The BC Cooky Book is my all time favorite book!
I bought a Pampered Chef cookie press close to 20 years ago and never used it successfully. I can’t get the dough to “cut off” and leave a cookie on the baking sheet.
This makes me want to bake cookies! I really don’t bake. My family doesn’t bake… I am an excellent cook and come from a long line of excellent cooks but baking terrifies me. It’s so precise and takes patience.
For years, the youth group I mentored raised funds by baking Christmas cookies. Any given year ten thousand cookies or more were baked and treated for the fundraiser. Love this video. Never cutting in half. Always doubling or tripling recipes. Colored cinnamon sugar snickerdoodles for certain!
My family baked Christmas Cookies every weekend in December and froze them for Christmas Eve and Day. We used a few different cookie books. We made Spritz cookies, Almond Horns, Turtle cookies with frosting, Snowball’s with a Hershey with a chocolate kiss inside. To name a few. The books we had were Betty Crocker Cookie book, Joy of Cooking cookie book and the Domio Sugar book and the Culinary Institute Cookie Jar. This video was very nostalgic ❤
Our poodle is named Snickerdoodle 😊 so I may have to try in her honor. Love all your videos; this one is perfect for getting into the Christmas spirit! Thank you!
I noticed you had a Saugatuck sign on your fridge. I grew up in Michigan. The first time I saw it was when my parents were moving from Maryland in the Summer of 1980. I left Michigan for California, where I was born and currently live, in 1998. Saugatuck was one of the first places I missed.
For years, the youth group I mentored raised funds by baking Christmas cookies. Any given year ten thousand cookies or more were baked and treated for the fundraiser. Love this video. Never cutting in half. Always doubling or tripling recipes. Colored cinnamon sugar snickerdoodles for certain! Roll any powdered sugar cookies when still warm. Reroll in powdered sugar when completely cool. Then, Store in ziplock with extra powdered sugar. That way when you go to serve the powdered sugar is there.
I sent a gift of a spiral binding copy of the BC Cooky Book cookie cookbook to my adult son & family. It arrived today. Warm holiday vibes all around 😊
I ran across the McCormick finishing sugar in early November, I bought 3 flavors, White Frosting, Hot Cocoa, and English Toffee. They were in a large display at Walmart, we went back the next day for some other things and the display was empty. Literally wiped out in less tha 24 hours! I'm so glad I bougt them when I saw them. They were pricey..but, I'm excited to try them. I made some bluebarry scones last weekend and used the white frosting flavor on top instead of a glaze. Beautiful and delicious.
The lemon cookies are similar to something I make. I flatten the balls of dough with the bottom of a glass before baking so they're easier to fill and store.
I love snickerdoodles!! I use a mixture of butter and shortening for my recipe too because shortening has less water in it, so you get a chewier cookie than one with butter alone.
My mom had the original book, my sister has it now. The only cookies we got were sugar cookies that she cut with HRM cutters which are still available to buy. Then we sprinkled colored sugar on them. I prefer icing in sugar cookies but sugar is nice too. I don’t remember us getting any other type of cookie though my mom loved baking, I was born in 1959.
My mom has a first edition of this cooky book! I bought the reissue when it came out as well. Ethel's Sugar Cookie recipe is my go to...in fact, I will be going to it this weekend. I use margarine (instead of butter) for incredibly soft tender dough/cookies AND the lemon extract (instead of vanilla) for flavoring. The lemon gives a brightness to the flavor that balances with the sweetness of the frosting. I do cheat and use pre-made frosting but use the Fluffy White not the vanilla white version. This keeps the vanilla from taking over the lemon in the cookie!! I've been using this recipe for more than 45 years and it never fails!
Ahhhhh the classic! This year, I think I'll be taking a day off from work to make my cookie & brownie boxes early (I distribute them to the local businesses I frequent throughout the year, to my neighbors, and to my mail carrier), and it's just been too stressful to do it all, like, the day before I leave to visit family for a week. This video is definitely getting me into the holiday spirit!
My grandma's pfefferneusse were different--she rolled out the dough in a thin rope and cut it into small pieces, maybe 1/2" long. So you'd have all these tiny spicy tidbits to scoop up and munch. I think that may be a Mennonite variation. I have Grandma's recipe and keep thinking I need to just try to make some.
I grew up helping my mom make cookies with her Mirro cookie press. This looks a little easier, but as I have my mom's and my aunt's AND the one I started housekeeping with, don't know if I can justify getting a new one. I love watching you cook with all the different pyrex and corning ware that I grew up with in my mom's and my aunts' and grandmother's kitchens. I love the sour cream cookies from the Mirro press book.
There is something so completely nostalgic for me watching these videos of Christmas cookies (or other dishes) from my childhood in the 60's. I also love that I can see your "Life on Svalbard" book on your shelf, as well!
It’s Sunday night and I always look forward to seeing your video. You have inspired me me to make Christmas cookies. I’m already looking up sanding sugars and cookie presses. Thanks so much!
Update on the McCormick Finishing Sugars - I was able to find them again at my local Meijer the day before Thanksgiving! 🎉
Brave soul you going to Meijer Wednesday before turkey day!
I went down a deep internet rabbit hole exploring finishing sugars
The best cookie in this book is Mary's sugar cookies and the thumbprint in this book are excellent. Molasses crinkle cookies are great.
Those are some of the best in the book. Because I have a original book.
Since it's just my husband and me, we keep cookie dough in the freezer year round. It goes straight from the freezer into our breville oven for 10 minutes, 4-6 at a time, so that we can have that delicious treat, without the temptation of eating an entire batch.
I bake and freeze the cookies all at once, then pull out a few at a time. But that’s a great alternative.
I've done this for years. I love frozen cookie dough balls, so easy to thaw and bake.
What temp do you use @AmyMLevy
@@gloriawilliams7541 Don't laugh, but my husband programmed the smart oven's cookies setting, so I don't have to remember!
I freeze chocolate chip.cookie balls and give them to my kids. I write the baking time and degrees on the container in marker. Then they can bake them for their families whenever they want.
I remember decorating Christmas cookies with my siblings in the late 1960s-70s with silver balls. Apparently, they were not supposed to be eaten, the fine print said "For decorative purposes only." We used to eat them like candy. I guess they contained mercury! We all survived. I know this is a typical Gen X/Boomer Survival Story. 😅
Living on the edge!!!
Love it!!
😂😂😂
@@dianaarmitage512 My dad used to say, "You kids have it easy. I used to walk five miles to school in the snow!" Little did we know we could've answered back, "Yeah? Did you eat poison mercury balls disguised as candy and survive?"
@beelinesouth I think by the 80s they might have removed the mercury, but who knows?
They are called Silver Dragees. Easy to break a tooth on those!
Really?!? Omg. I ate them so much I thought it was food group…😮
We used this cookbook in my childhood. My Mom then gave it to me when I got married, 45 years ago. I baked cookies from this book while raising our 3 boys. Now I have gifted my Daughter-in- laws with the cookbook to bake for my grandchildren. It’s a treasure!
I enter snickerdoodles in the state fair. Honorable mention 3 yrs in a row. Snickerdoodles are a family favorite
Do a series where you make every cookie in the Cooky Book- just like the woman that did the Julia Child cookbook- that would be fun
My mother was so happy when she got a cookie press. They were the best cookies. She made some kind of cookie every week. I was a lucky kid ❤
I have this cookie book. My mom was given this book at 16. She is 68 now. THE BEST COOKIE BOOK I HAVE EVER USED
OMY GOSH!!!! I got this as a bridal shower back in Feb 1978…and I still have it!!!
I got married in Feb '78 and still have mine too.
I got married in 1973 and received this at my wedding shower and I also still have it and use it.😊
My mother always made most of our Christmas cookies from this cookbook. Russian tea cakes, thumbprints, etc. I loved looking at the pictures and was intrigued by the water color type painted sugar cookies, but she never tackled those.
I always wanted to make those too, but we never did. As a child that seemed to be the best idea ever! As a parent now, I think I know why my mom never tackled them!
I have my "Trig-O-Matic Cookie Gun by Cookie Chef" in its original box from about 1967. It has the price on it in pen - $6.95. It's aluminum and shaped like a gun, similar to yours but with another part to the handle so you can use one hand to force the dough out. It was made in Cleveland Ohio. I use it every year. Will have to make the chocolate ones!
I found a copy of this book on the bookshelf in our finished basement! I don’t know if it was my Mom’s or her elder sisters. Auntie made many trays of cookies each year as gifts and would spend the early Autumn planning all the varieties she would make. An anecdote: after Mom died earlier this year, I couldn’t find her Will. Mid-Summer I was looking on THAT shelf and low & behold what was in the Cookybook?! Yes, her Will! She wasn’t supposed to go down flights of stairs since her Bypass in 2012 but she must have gone there when I was not home and I can’t think why.
i have used this cooky book for more years than I can remember. I absolutely love the recipes and my family loves them too. I have worn out a couple copies of this book. I have got many compliments for them when taking them to gettogethers or serve them in my home. I know everyone has a delicious chocolate chip cooky recipe bu I always get asked for the recipe of mine from this book. People have said that they like their cooky recipe but this one is better than theirs. I treasure this book so much. So many cookies--so many memories.
A few days after watching this episode I found a Cooky Book at a library sale. Sixth printing with the spiral edge so some pages are not perfect but I am so happy to have found it. Only one dollar! Thank you for sharing your love of this book. I’m sure that it will be one of my favorites also.
Present the lemon cookies in cupcake papers. Pretty.
@@sunflowermarcia7277 I do the same thing with my Russian Tea Cakes. GREAT suggestion!
My mom has this exact book! Snickerdoodles and chocolate crinkles are the BEST childhood memories!
I loved the little story about your grandma! My mother is 91 years old. She keeps a giant candy dish full of of starlight peppermints in her little entryway in her assisted living apartment for nurses, aides, and other visitors. I buy pretty huge bags from Walmart & have them delivered to her. She goes through on average 4 lbs of them a month! She just loves doing it because people drop by all day long for a mint, and I'm happy to supply them. Also, I've commented about this before but I love the Betty Crocker Cooky Book. My mother has her original and I have one she gave me as a gift. I've also given my daughter one. Now my little granddaughter loves looking through it with her dad and choosing a cookie for the family to bake.
My childhood best friend bought me this softcover recipe book for Christmas in the late 1970s when we were twelve years old. I bought her a glossy poster of kittens. She passed away at age 44.
I miss her and her talented festive cookie making skills ❤
I grew up with this Cooky Book and loved to look at the pictures. My favorite cookie is the pineapple filled cookies. My mom would make them every Christmas. I looked for years for this book and now I have a copy of my own. The other day I saw it at Barnes and Noble amongst the holiday items. It brings back such wonderful memories. Every cookie I've made in this cookbook has been tasty.
I was given this cookbook at age 12 sixty-two years ago! Ty Barb.!
Because of you, I have my copy of the book beside me as I watch this video. ^_^
This video just appeared in my YT feed! I LOVE the Cooky Book! I think that is where my love for cookbooks first started. My Mom had this and as a child I would sit and just flip through the pages. This book was basically only used at Christmas when she made Chocolate Crinkles and Hermits. I have her original book (now falling apart) and newer copy to replace it. Thanks for sharing!!!
I've made so many cookies from that book. Italian wedding cookies are probably my favorite.
My mom always made the Russian Teacake and Canadian Oatmeal Shortbread cookies during the holidays. They were my dad's favorites; and my sister and I would make them for him after our mom died. Mom made the shortbread cookies as drop cookies. I have both my mom and grandma's copy of the cooky book and bought my sister the re-issue.
I had this book when I was a child. Yes I'm old lol
I have a first edition that has handwritten notes by my grandmother. Priceless to me. Use it year round as I bake for a homeless shelter. Love this book.
My absolute favorite cookbook, given to me by my cousin our senior year Christmas over 50 years ago. Many of the cookies are Christmas favorites in our family. Snickerdoodlrs, Russian tea cakes, chocolate crinkles, sugar cookies, molasses crinkles, gingerbread men, candy cane cookies, filled date cookies etc My youngest son made snickerdoodles, his favorite, for his 3rd grade birthday party at school 30 years ago. So many precious memories baking cookies from this book with my loved ones through the years.🎄
I have so many memories as a child in the 60s of pouring through the Betty Crocker cookie cookbook! My mom always let my sister and I pick out a recipe each that she (and eventually we) would bake. It was magical. I still have our well-worn copy, cover falling off but I still peruse it every Christmas season. 😊
My favorite holiday cookie is gingerbread! Also funny how you said people listen to you during long tasks. I'm watching your videos while knitting:)
My favorite cookie book!! I have my mom's after she passed. Has her notes in it as well. Wonderful cookies and wonderful memories.
Totally love that hand mixer . Love your channel 🎉👍
I think this video is going to one of your most watched videos over time. I needed your video tonight. I was having a horrible, accident filled, trying to get my tree up and dinner made, evening. It seemed nothing was going right. Needing a break, I sat down with my (mostly horrible) dinner to watch your video. Your energy, excitement to use your favorite cookbook , and cheerful Christmas apron, made your cookie making even more joyful. It brought memories back for me about my mom making cookies, and me making the same cookies for my children. Now they make them for their children.
You are a good teacher, clear instructions, and helpful with the little details. You helped me bring some cheer back into my evening, and have motivated me to try some new cookie recipes.
Now that my own normally cheerful self is back, I am going to try to make the lemon snowdrops. Something new (old) to add to my repertoire. Thanks so much for a great video. I look forward to other Christmas videos. It would be awesome to see you make the cookie house. I wish you and family a wonderful, joyful holiday season!
Thank you!! Ordered the book! It’s always fun to go back to the original recipes, plus we know more techniques and have better appliances now. My Betty Crocker baking in 1969 as a bride wasn’t the best, but I could do some cookies ok lol. Don’t ask about the cake 🤣🤣
I was given that cookie book back in the 60’s as a present and I love it ❤
I can barely make a decent drop cookie, so I have always been to intimidated to try a cookie press or rolling dough and using cookie cutters, but your obvious joy in making these cookies was infectious and a delight to watch-as usual. 💕
I also have this book and use all the time. Mine is almost 50 years old. I’m married almost 50:years. Thanks.
I was born in 1963 and still have my Mom's original Wear-ever Cookie Gun. My grandkids will be here tomorrow to help bake this year's Christmas Spritz cookies!
My cookbook club is using this book for our cookie swap this month! We each chose 2 cookies from this book to make! My 2 choices, and holiday favorites, lemon squares and gingerbread boys!❤️
I grew up baking from that book! I'm sure Mom's copy is an original version. Besides chocolate crinkles, snickerdoodles, and thumb prints, my favorites are the molasses crinkles and the peppermint candy canes.
Yes! Those candy cane are a delicious (and fragile!) Treasure!!!!
I love your laugh when you checked out the lemon cookies 😂. They look great!
Thank you! 😊
That was my favorite cook book as a child. I loved looking through it and picking out a recipe to bake with my mom.
Sitting pretties are my favorite. Cookie rolled in nuts topped with icing and on top of that a single M&M
First cookie book my aunt gave me when I moved away from home. Use it all year around. 😊
Hershey kiss peanut butter blossoms are my all time favorite!!! Next are iced sugar cookies and the orange glazed.
I’ve had that cookbook for over 40 years, and it’s still my favorite! And that’s my go-to snickerdoodle recipe! That’s my favorite cookie ever, and my grandmother always made them for me when we’d go to visit when I was growing up. Sweet memories!!
Oh, I love the Betty Crocker Cooky Book! My mom has a copy from the 1970s, when she got married. I haven't made anything from that book in a long time; I think I need to make some snickerdoodles this season!
This will be a hard year for the cookie baking. My mother passed away in July, and baked so many of the Cooky Book recipes for 60 years. We’ll be gathering as a family in a couple of weeks to bake and remember. 🥲 Particular favorites that only get deployed at Christmas include Viennese Shortbread (p.22), Russian Teacakes (p.25), and the “Marzipan Cookies” (no actual marzipan involved, p.69). For those it was always the strawberry variant. The rest of the year, depending on my mood, we make snickerdoodles, molasses crinkles, and the date-oatmeal cookies from p25, except with chocolate chips swapped for the dates, at which point they are my favorite oatmeal chocolate chips cookies.
ANNA FIRST EDITION???? I’m so happy for you!! And 5 dollars!? Omg amazing. Amazing news! What a find!
Great video as always and congrats on the treasure
Always a favorite every year. My Cooky book cookies are Mexican wedding cakes!
My Norwegian friends love Snickerdoodles-they call them “those cinnamon cookies.” They are not popular in France, but a friend’s daughter said she saw them on TikTok and wanted to try them. She came over to make them with me. She loved them too!
I was waiting for you to show the cookie house 😀 I received this Cookie book as a wedding present back in 1971 and my kids loved looking through it but the favorite picture was the cookie house.
I still have this book and look through it now and then but it’s somewhat fragile. When my daughter grew up I bought her the “replica” version.
My mother and grandmother use to bake dozens and dozens of cookies and many different kinds of candy at Christmas time. They made spritz cookies but they called them cookie press cookies. Theirs had a screw crank to push the cookies out. They were always so dainty, buttery and delicious!
Spritz, snickerdoodles, crinkles, and the candy cane cookies were made every Christmas. We would also tried others from time to time, but those were the basics. Great memories baking with my mom and siblings. 😊
We made the cookie house a couple of times. It was so much fun. I also spent hours over the years looking at all the pictures.
I love that book too! I have my Mom's original copy and share the same memories as you. I loved looking through it as a child. Hard to pick a favorite, but I do love the candy cane cookies and spritz! Thank you for sharing. 🎄🍪
Omg I think my mom still has that very cookbook. She used it all during my childhood. Snickerdoodles was the very first thing I learned to bake in my jr high home economics class!
My favorite cookies are springerle. There is a recipe in this book, but it's a little different from mine. Mine uses anise extract and baker's ammonia as a rising agent. My mom made these every Christmas. Her parents were from Germany and my mom learned from her mom. Now my daughter and I both make them. Love spritz too.
My mom had this original cookie book. We use to look at it like it was the wish book. One year for Christmas, I copied all the pages and put them in protective sleeves and put them in a binder so both of my sisters could have a copy since the original fell apart. Would still love to get a new copy or find an original for a good price.😊
My kids looked through it like the “wish book”, too. Brings back good memories to me. Those were good times when kids would entertain themselves with a cookie book rather than a tablet.
I used to make a butter cookie recipe for the cookie press. Mine was power. Then instead of vanilla I used fresh ground cardamom. My family is Norwegian and loved them.
For many, many years, my mom made the Candy Cane Cookies every year at Christmas. They are delicious. They are also a soul-destroying amount of work to make. When she decided she wasn't going to make them any more, I completely understood. I miss them, but not so much that I've ever been tempted to make them myself.
My three favorite non-Christmas cookies from this book are Orange Drops, Malted Milk Rounds, and Vermont Maple Cookies.
For me it was the Better Homes and Gardens Cookie Cookbook. It love it so much that when I found another copy at a rummage sale I bought it as a back up if my mom's copy dies. There is a recipe in there for Santa's Whiskers that is so yummy and I need to make them again
OMG, I have that cookie book and have been using it since I was 11. My favorite is on page 124 - Butter Horn Cookies. I'm 71 and it wouldn't be Christmas without them.
Your mixing bowls are so nostalgic. A wonderful core childhood memory of mine was baking Christmas cookies on an early release school day in December with my Mom and brothers. My Mom would have the dough ready by the time we got home and she’d play Christmas music on the record player. I miss my Mom who has passed but I’m so grateful for this happy memory. 🎄🔔🎄
I’ve never made the chocolate Spritz before… always wanted to. I make the green Christmas tree and red daisy (poinsettia) Spritz every Christmas! 🎄 🌺 The BC Cooky Book is my all time favorite book!
I bought a Pampered Chef cookie press close to 20 years ago and never used it successfully. I can’t get the dough to “cut off” and leave a cookie on the baking sheet.
Hooray! Hooray! HOORAY!!! 🥹🎄✨
I have so much love for this book! The hands down best recipe in it is the chocolate crinkle cookies. Yum!
A perfect way to celebrate #NationalCookieDay today!!! 🍪♥💚💚♥
This makes me want to bake cookies! I really don’t bake. My family doesn’t bake…
I am an excellent cook and come from a long line of excellent cooks but baking terrifies me. It’s so precise and takes patience.
Start with the chocolate chip recipe on the Nestle Tollhouse chocolate chips bag. It is a science, but cookies can have variations and still be great.
Love the chocolate crinkles.
For years, the youth group I mentored raised funds by baking Christmas cookies. Any given year ten thousand cookies or more were baked and treated for the fundraiser. Love this video. Never cutting in half. Always doubling or tripling recipes. Colored cinnamon sugar snickerdoodles for certain!
Anna is making the magic happen ✨️
My family baked Christmas Cookies every weekend in December and froze them for Christmas Eve and Day. We used a few different cookie books.
We made Spritz cookies, Almond Horns, Turtle cookies with frosting, Snowball’s with a Hershey with a chocolate kiss inside. To name a few. The books we had were Betty Crocker Cookie book, Joy of Cooking cookie book and the Domio Sugar book and the Culinary Institute Cookie Jar. This video was very nostalgic ❤
Happy that I have an original copy of this Book. Everyone always asks for the Holiday Fruit Drops.....nostalgia!!
Our poodle is named Snickerdoodle 😊 so I may have to try in her honor. Love all your videos; this one is perfect for getting into the Christmas spirit! Thank you!
When I was teaching I gave out many, many gifts. Mostly I gave 13 different kinds of cookies. Made cookie plates for everyone.
snickerdoodles are one of my favorites!
I noticed you had a Saugatuck sign on your fridge. I grew up in Michigan. The first time I saw it was when my parents were moving from Maryland in the Summer of 1980. I left Michigan for California, where I was born and currently live, in 1998. Saugatuck was one of the first places I missed.
I inherited that book from my mom and its one of my favorites! I pull it out every Christmas (and throughout the year).
I make biscochitos every year. With lard. So good :)
For years, the youth group I mentored raised funds by baking Christmas cookies. Any given year ten thousand cookies or more were baked and treated for the fundraiser. Love this video. Never cutting in half. Always doubling or tripling recipes.
Colored cinnamon sugar snickerdoodles for certain!
Roll any powdered sugar cookies when still warm. Reroll in powdered sugar when completely cool. Then, Store in ziplock with extra powdered sugar. That way when you go to serve the powdered sugar is there.
Anna you are the one who taught me that my pyrex Cinderella bowls have a pouring spout! 😄 My grandma always ate peppermint candies too!
I sent a gift of a spiral binding copy of the BC Cooky Book cookie cookbook to my adult son & family. It arrived today. Warm holiday vibes all around 😊
I remember this cook book from my childhood, going to see if any of my older sisters still have it, thanks for the memories.
Will be making spritz cookies with the grandkids this Christmas. Such fun. ❤
I ran across the McCormick finishing sugar in early November, I bought 3 flavors, White Frosting, Hot Cocoa, and English Toffee. They were in a large display at Walmart, we went back the next day for some other things and the display was empty. Literally wiped out in less tha 24 hours! I'm so glad I bougt them when I saw them. They were pricey..but, I'm excited to try them. I made some bluebarry scones last weekend and used the white frosting flavor on top instead of a glaze. Beautiful and delicious.
I was able to find them again at Meijer the day before Thanksgiving! Those blueberry scones sound divine. 😋
@@cooking_the_books they were! 😊
The lemon cookies are similar to something I make. I flatten the balls of dough with the bottom of a glass before baking so they're easier to fill and store.
I would eat them in one go... to avoid a mess.. yeah, that's why😊
@@redrooster1908 this is why I don't make them often. And the lemon curd filling is too tempting.
I love snickerdoodles!! I use a mixture of butter and shortening for my recipe too because shortening has less water in it, so you get a chewier cookie than one with butter alone.
My mom had the original book, my sister has it now. The only cookies we got were sugar cookies that she cut with HRM cutters which are still available to buy. Then we sprinkled colored sugar on them. I prefer icing in sugar cookies but sugar is nice too. I don’t remember us getting any other type of cookie though my mom loved baking, I was born in 1959.
My mom has a first edition of this cooky book! I bought the reissue when it came out as well. Ethel's Sugar Cookie recipe is my go to...in fact, I will be going to it this weekend. I use margarine (instead of butter) for incredibly soft tender dough/cookies AND the lemon extract (instead of vanilla) for flavoring. The lemon gives a brightness to the flavor that balances with the sweetness of the frosting. I do cheat and use pre-made frosting but use the Fluffy White not the vanilla white version. This keeps the vanilla from taking over the lemon in the cookie!! I've been using this recipe for more than 45 years and it never fails!
Ahhhhh the classic! This year, I think I'll be taking a day off from work to make my cookie & brownie boxes early (I distribute them to the local businesses I frequent throughout the year, to my neighbors, and to my mail carrier), and it's just been too stressful to do it all, like, the day before I leave to visit family for a week. This video is definitely getting me into the holiday spirit!
I make/ buy food to businesses I frequent, too!!!! ❤🎉
@@loriloristuff I'm so glad I'm not the only dork who does this. 😆
My mom used to make two flavors of icebox cookies: spice and chocolate. I've never had anything as good since.
Betty Crocker and cookies go together ! Great share !
Yay! Cookies!
Russian tea cakes and peanut blossoms are my favorites 😊
Favorite cookie is pfefferneuse. Archway is my savior on these.
Me too! Some have a kind of crusty coating & others have powdered sugar on top. Which do you prefer?
I haven't had pfefferneuse since I was a kid and my mom made them, from this book of course! She always coated them with the powdered sugar.
My grandma's pfefferneusse were different--she rolled out the dough in a thin rope and cut it into small pieces, maybe 1/2" long. So you'd have all these tiny spicy tidbits to scoop up and munch. I think that may be a Mennonite variation. I have Grandma's recipe and keep thinking I need to just try to make some.
I grew up helping my mom make cookies with her Mirro cookie press. This looks a little easier, but as I have my mom's and my aunt's AND the one I started housekeeping with, don't know if I can justify getting a new one. I love watching you cook with all the different pyrex and corning ware that I grew up with in my mom's and my aunts' and grandmother's kitchens. I love the sour cream cookies from the Mirro press book.
I look forward to cinnamon stars. ⭐️
There is something so completely nostalgic for me watching these videos of Christmas cookies (or other dishes) from my childhood in the 60's. I also love that I can see your "Life on Svalbard" book on your shelf, as well!
I always make wedding cake cookies! Yummy!
Love your fun attitude 🎉. Totally grew up with this book in my mom's kitchen....I am 60 now. Your little ornaments are adorable 😍
It’s Sunday night and I always look forward to seeing your video. You have inspired me me to make Christmas cookies. I’m already looking up sanding sugars and cookie presses. Thanks so much!