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The Christmas Tradition Even My Non-Christian Friends Like

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clockwise contemplates going counter
12/11/09

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I used to do that every year with my oma when I was little. We did four or five different kinds of biscuits and my grandma NEVER had to use a recipe.
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Cairn
12/11/09

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Ah, child labor. The staple of the domestic economy.
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colormeroutine
12/11/09

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Why don't kindergartens and preschools here look more like this?!
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luceo.non.uro
12/11/09

@colormeroutine: That photo is from a Waldorf School, which is private. There are Waldorf Schools in the U.S. that are just as nice (and VERY expensive).
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bowleserised
12/11/09

@luceo.non.uro: It looks like a pretty standard "kita" for this neighbourhood of Berlin. Not always crazy expensive, either.
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fluxus flucker
12/11/09

@colormeroutine: Its a Waldorf school. Amazing education, but very expensive plus some kooky beliefs (Rudolf Steiner's writings).
Kinder classes only use natural light, wooden toys (usually very simple things, like wooden dolls without faces.), and the kids don't receive much direction from teachers - but in a positive way!
I really wanted my kids to go to Waldorf, but we can't afford it. Oh, well. We can still bring out the rolling pin for some homemade cookies in our family kitchen. :)
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jessiesalzi
12/11/09

@bowleserised: i teach at a private preschool in munich and ours looks about like that.

waldorf schools are very different to normal schools - kids write their own textbooks and everything is handmade/handcrafted. it is rare to find something that is not "natural" in their schools. i like the idea of it, but it doesnt work for every child that's for sure.
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12/11/09

@bowleserised: Yeah, my small town kindergarten didn't look all that different.
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Tchotchke
12/11/09

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Aw, German Christmas cookies! My grandmother is German and every year she makes these incredible cookies from recipes that have been handed down through the generations on the Austrian/German side of my family. When my father was a kid, he used to bake with her, and then when I was born, I baked with my dad every Christmas eve. Still do, actually!
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katnap
12/11/09

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This is the exact amount of holiday joy I can handle on a Friday. YAY!
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Adah
12/11/09

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Damn it, Jezebel, I've been married less than a year. Stop making me want kids! I'm too young!
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sayah
12/11/09

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It's all fun and games until the sugar kicks in.
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Mary McCarthyite
12/11/09

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So cute! I am jealous of this girl's workspace. When I roll out cookie dough it is on an inadequately small table in a city apartment. I even have a mini rolling pin because I don't think I have space for a larger one. She even has an apron!
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PhoebeC
12/11/09

@Mary McCarthyite: you have a rolling pin!! I've been using wine bottles for the last few years. I always have wine, rolling pin, not so much.
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bluewine
12/11/09

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The fact that this little girl isn't devouring raw cookie dough shows that she had much more restraint than I do.
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labeled
12/11/09

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Aww. AND, perfect segue to share a sugar cookie secret - particularly useful for cookies with "sharp" edges, like stars and snowflakes.

See how they rolled the cookies onto parchment paper? Do that, just roll out your dough onto parchment cut the size of your cookie pans. Then, cut out your shapes - peeling aways the "extra" dough and leaving the cookies in their original spot.

Carefully transfer the entire piece of paper onto your cookie sheet and bake. Et voila! perfectly shaped cookies w/out the drama.
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Little Green Frog (Wise Latina)
12/11/09

@labeled: and make sure your dough is sort of cold, so that it holds its shape during cutting and the first part of baking.
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Mary McCarthyite
12/11/09

@labeled: Ah! This might be the solution to my lack of space problem.
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labeled
12/11/09

@Mary McCarthyite: I honestly think it's the best sugar cookie tip ever.
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FactCat
12/11/09

@labeled: Ohhhh, I think you may have just solved the 'cookie transfer' problems that have been plaguing me all my life. Danke!
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Cytochromeo
12/11/09

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Awwww. My Mom and I always used to make sugar cookies together and I remember getting impatient that the dough had to sit in the fridge for a few hours. She always left extra dough for me to eat
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Liz11685
12/20/08

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OOh, cookie recipes! I am totally going to try those out in the next few days with my mom.

On student poverty and cookie baking: a couple years ago I had a friend (who later became a terrible roommate) who baked cookies for everyone for Christmas. She even went to another girl's apartment to use her stove, as she lived in the dorms. The cookies tasted like crap. So please, if you are giving cookies as gifts, PLEASE taste test beforehand.
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TheFormerJuneBronson
12/20/08

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I thought this would amuse you guys--I was looking at cookie recipes last night, and found that in the Betty Crocker Picture Cookbook (the reprint from c 1949), they have grouped certain cookie recipes together as beau-catchers and husband-keepers. They were mostly traditional recipes like chocolate chip and "His Mother's" oatmeal, with a few also involving (subtly!) dates. That sort of thing cracks my shit up.

My husband's a pie man, actually.
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Maritsa
12/20/08

@TheFormerJuneBronson: Awesome. I remember one of my cookbooks (I think Betty Crocker, actualy) said a woman should know how to cook eggs six ways to "please her man." Um...marital satisfaction: UR DOIN IT WRONG.
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TheFormerJuneBronson
12/20/08

@Maritsa: Six? Wow. That's some picky man. I asked Mr. JB just now how many ways I had to know how to cook eggs to keep him happy, and he said, "Eggs? I can cook my own damn eggs."

I will say, however, that getting an egg poaching insert for a deep fry pan was a good idea. With him, it's not the way they're cooked, but the frequency with which I serve them. We both love eggs, and poached, I can make four in five minutes. We have English muffin sandwiches and eggs Benedict pretty often, especially when I have yolks to use up in hollandaise sauce.
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Maritsa
12/20/08

@TheFormerJuneBronson: I was trying to think of six ways to cook an egg...scrambled, over easy, over hard, poached, omelette(?), and ???. Shirred maybe?

We did breakfast for dinner last nigth and (gasp!) my husband cooked the eggs!!! Scrambled. I was happy to get a meal I didn't cook and that I didn't have to eat while bouncing a baby in my lap.
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RedHotz
12/20/08

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Presently we are in the process of fixing our holiday cookies and some of them are: sugar cookies, lebkuchen, pfeffernusse, sugar cookies, gingerbread cookies, gingersnaps, spritz, macaroons, chocolate chips, chocolate no-bake cookies, peanutbutter cookies and a few others.

Then there are the candies that we make. My kitchen is in total chaos at the holidays and I absolutely LOVE it.
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MzPstoff
12/19/08

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thanks to ready-made pillsbury gingerbread dough, i got to make some mutant gingerbread people tonight.
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TheFormerJuneBronson
12/20/08

@MzPstoff: I think I'm going to go that way with cookies for the kid to decorate. It's enough work to clean up after him with that!
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