Here, for Abbe, is my recipe for Neopolitans the way that the Aunts Gail and Thelma used to make them. I write it largely as I received it, rather than as I would write it, so pardon any eccentricity. Notes and tips from my experience will follow. 1 12 oz. can of Solo Almond Filling 1 c. butter, [...]
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Cooking with ghosts
Posted in traditions, tagged baking, Christmas, shortbread, tradition on December 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »
My Christmas cooking list is lengthy and specific: Indian cookies, Neopolitans, short bread, stollen, boeuf bourguignon. Plus assorted candies, cookies, sweet breads. Indian Cookies are the taste of my childhood Christmasses: tooth-achingly sweet chocolate haystacks of coconut, oatmeal, and peanut butter. One of the earliest cooking memories I have was standing over my mother’s Revereware [...]