Sorry, Katharine, I did not grow up eating Portuguese cookies. My grandmother, born in Terceira, Azores, did not cook in her home there. Her mother and then step-mother did all the cooking. When she came to CA, she was a kitchen helper on a ranch in San Gregorio, (between Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz). She could neither read nor write and I guess the woman of the house did not bake cookies. Grandma only learned to make egg custard, rice pudding, fried bread dough (felous??spelling) and sweet bread. No cookies. I purchase the Biscoits from 9 Island Bakery in Sonoma County. I like them the best. Just plain, no flavoring or frosting. The cookie baking tradition began for me when my oldest daughter, Cheryl, began school. One of her classmate's mother and I became good friends and we baked Santa Clause cookies (Aunt chick from Oklahoma was the author of the cookie cutter and recipe.) This year, it took a whole day and a half just to make Santa. For the last few years, I have been able to talk my daughter out of making Santa, this year, I couldn't figtht her. Anyway, 20 different cookies that I have collected over 50 years, are all mixed, baked, plated and ready to be delivered to neighbors and friends to wish them a Merry Christmas. This tradition began when there was no money to buy gifts for friends and the cookies were something everyone liked. As I write this, I am reminded that no one ever visited my grandmother's home that was not fed and given food to take home with them. Sometimes, we do things that we are not even aware have basis in our long-ago past. Celeste, Hayward, CA
Celeste Perry [email protected] --- On Fri, 12/17/10, Katharine <[email protected]> wrote: From: Katharine <[email protected]> Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Christmas To: "Azores Genealogy" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, December 17, 2010, 8:10 PM Could she please post one of her favorite Azorean cookie recipes for us? Katharine. -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership."
