Promise

I'm given to packrat tendencies. Okay, okay. I am a packrat. See? I can admit it. I have little bits and pieces of this and that in every nook and cranny of this house.

How does that relate to this blog? Well, a lot of this clutter has to do with recipes. I keep the entire food section if there's even one tiny recipe I like. Same with magazines. Three shelves worth of cookbooks that are threatening to spill over into four.

I keep all that stuff because I've learned that cutting them out doesn't help all that much either. I'm not organized enough to get them into a notebook or any other form of logical system in a timely manner.

Hence, the blog -- and the promise: I will not post any recipe here that has not been tried and found wonderful. This space is for quality, not quantity.

So here goes:

"Snickerdoodle" finished his high school diploma this week. We're all proud of him and this recipe is posted in his honor.

My mother has made 100's of these cookies, and I suppose I have, too. I have never met a kid or grandchild who did not love rolling cookie dough in cinnamon and sugar. Usually, we get two in the mouth to every one on the baking sheet, but that's ok, too. Grandmother probably started it!


Snickerdoodles
1 cup butter-flavored soft shortening
1-1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs
2-3/4 cups flour
2 teaspoons cream of tartar
1 teaspoon soda
1/2 teaspoon salt

Mix shortening, sugar, and eggs. Sift together flour, cream of tartar, soda, and salt. Add to the first mixture. Chill dough. Roll into small balls. Roll in mixture of equal parts cinnamon and sugar. Bake at 400 degrees for 8 - 10 minutes.