It's beginning to look a lot like December

[rj_anderson]

Thanks to the anonymous benefactor who gave me my first virtual snowflake cookie of the day, as well as tartanshell and izhilzha for supplying the others. Very fitting on a day when we're getting our first real snowfall of the season here in southwestern Ontario...

I hear that there are storms a-brewing to the south, but at present the snow is drifting from the sky in a picturesque fashion, and the green is still showing through the powder, and I think I shall put on some seasonal music* and make a cup of tea. I might even do some baking -- Snickerdoodles, perhaps.

What about you? What special treats does your family make at this time of the year, and which one is your favorite and why?


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* That would be actual Christmas carols with some dignity and meaning to them, not the annoying ditties that pass for inoffensive seasonal content. I really think that if I hear anyone's cover version of "Santa Baby" one more time, I will climb up the wall of my local department store and knock the loudspeakers off the ceiling.

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[tree_and_leaf]

My mother makes these amazing German cookies, with honey and chocolate chips.

You should see if you can get hold of Coope, Boyes and Simpson's Christmas albums (Fire and Sleet and Candlelight, or Voices at the Door) - folk and eighteenth century-ish carols and songs, unaccompanied part singing, in the tradition of Gallery and Yorkshire Pub carols. Amazing stuff.

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

Oh, those sound fantastic! Thanks for the recommendation -- I'd never heard of Coope, Boyes and Simpson before.

My MIL is German and makes many wonderful cookies at Christmas, but I don't know that I've had the honey and chocolate chip ones... unless they're the chewy squares that I particularly love of hers.