1947 oatmeal cookies: are these Sverhoeven crispies???

I wanted cookies. I thought I wanted the fatty Martha Stewart chocolate chip cookies. Then I looked on my bookshelf. I pulled down a few cookbooks. One of them was Anna Olsson Coombs' Modern Swedish Cookbook from 1947. I've been having this thing where I'm collecting 1940s, 50s and 60s cookbooks. I was intrigued by the cover, and since I'm part Swedish, I bought this book.

fun with pastry dough

Now, when I started this blog, I thought I'd only be making new recipes to blog about. But there are some items that I make often, like KAF's cinnamon sticks and toaster tarts. They're just so good! I've played with the recipes a little, making the dough with whole wheat flour once, and filling them with goodies other than cinnamon-sugar. Today I saw mini palmiers at Trader Joe's. I've stopped buying things I can bake myself, so I passed them by but thought "Why can't I make my own with the cinnamon stick dough?" So I decided to try.

I made butter!

I was perusing a popular food blog today, and came across this yummy looking item. Cinnamon butter, mmmm. The Texas Roadhouse serves a honey-cinnamon butter with their rolls. And Country Crock made a cinnamon butter for a while but no longer does. Then I thought, I can make butter right? Yes, yes I can. (Oh, and yes, I do most of my shopping at Shaw's. How'd you know?)

whole wheat chocolate chip cookies

I had a thought last week. I've been baking bread and pastries like it's no body's business, but I haven't made a batch of cookies in months. I think the last time I made cookies was when I made decorated sugar cookies in August for a friend's 30th birthday.

Whole wheat bread competition

I bake a lot of bread. A lot. But They're usually sweet breads or in roll form. I haven't been able to perfect a wheat bread that I can use for sandwiches. I'd like to make and not buy sandwich bread every week. So today I chose two recipes to test to try and find a good "go to" recipe for whole wheat sandwich bread.