My neighbors are big on sharing Christmas cookies and all of them are delicious. It's fun to see what their baking traditions are. This year one of my neighbors included Spritz cookies in her gift. Memories came flooding back. My mom use to make Spritz cookies. She got the recipe from Frau Ding, my parents' landlord when they lived in Germany.
Mom added red and green food coloring to her spritz cookie dough. It was fascinating to watch her fill up the cookie press with dough and then watch the shaped cookies come out of the other end. She let my brothers, sister, and me try the cookie press and we usually ended up with blops of cookies, but they still tasted good. As we got older, our technique got better, and soon we were able to help with the Spritz cookie baking.
I'm not sure what happened to the cookie press - I think Mom sold it in a garage sale.After enjoying my neighbor's cookies, I'm tempted to buy one and add them to next year's Christmas cookie repertoire. Just add another pound of butter to the Christmas baking!
We have so many of the same memories! Now I'm wondering what happened to that cookie press.
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