Many stories
come from Grandma’s kitchen and told down through the ages. Mine is a little different. You see, I am in my 80’s, and making gingerbread
men came down through my years, but after many years of not making them, grandma
caused a few casualties. Children fondly called them boo boo cookies.
The
Gingerbread Men were to be a surprise for a Bunco party I was hosting.. I carefully
kneaded the dough then I proceeded to roll the dough to about ¼ inch thick. Now,
the trouble began! I pressed the cookie cutter into the dough and tried to put
it on a cookie sheet. Well, it stuck. I
lightly floured the cookie cutter and tried again. Better results this time. I
managed to get a dozen cut out and onto the cookie sheet and baked them
according to my recipe. After the cookies cooled on the sheet, it was time to
place them on a cooling rack. Casualties began to happen! A leg fell off one,
an arm fell off another until I only had six whole ones left. This would never
do! I needed six more.
The process
for making the cookies started over again. I was working along and realized I
made the recipe for gingerbread cake instead of cookies. Well I finished the
cake and frosted it with the cookie icing. The cake looked pretty good but was a little plain so I put a
whole gingerbread man right in the center of the cake. He looked handsome
there.
When we were
ready to serve the cake the lone little gingerbread man became the casualty as the cake was sliced
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