Sunday Quotes...........party sunny....cooler

" For children who are our second planting, and though they grow like weeds and the wind too soon blows them away, may they forgive us our cultivation and fondly remember where their roots are."  Rev. Max Coots

Lemon Thumbprint cookies.........sunny 60's.....

As with many old timey recipes, there are a lot of versions of how thumbprint cookies came about and just when they date back to. But regardless of all that, the fact remains that they are a well known cookie reminisint of 'the good old days' when Grandma still baked cookies with the grandkids while wearing her apron!
This recipe is quite simple, and the tender flaky cookies, show off the filling wonderfully. Traditionally thumbprints are filled with jam or jelly and though that will work beautifully in these, in springtime when we have so many eggs I love them filled with our Lemon curd Recipe HERE .

Lemon Thumbprint cookies

1 cup butter, very soft
1/2 cup powdered sugar
2 tsps Almond extract
2 cups flour

1 cup homemade or prepared Lemon curd (cooled completely)

Mix butter and sugar together till very creamy, add extract.
Add flour and still well, it will be very crumbly at first, keep stiring, it will come together into a nice silk ball, cover with saran wrap and refridgerate for an hour (longer is fine too).
Lightly dust hands with flour and pinch off small balls of dough, roll into a ball about 1 inch in size place on ungreased cookie sheet and as you set down use your thumb to make an indentation in center of cookie. You can place them quite close together as they hardly spread at all.
When all your cookies are formed, take a teaspoon and place a dollop of lemon curd in indentation (don't overfill--about 1/2 a tsp. will do it) Bake at 350*15-18 minutes. Cookies will be slightly firm to the touch but will not brown. Remove from tray to a wire rack and cool completely.

Glaze: Mix together 1/2 cup powdered surgar and enough lemon juice (about a teaspoon)  to make a glaze that is thick but will easily drizzle off the end of a spoon, glaze cookies and serve!!!

ENJOY!

The Adventures of Valerie and Grace.... partly sunny 60's.

Valerie and Grace will be going to their new home on Saturday. So in between thunder storms I put them out one last time with their Mom and older sister.

First on the agenda was to have a group effort at pruning the rose bush.

 

 

 

When that was accomplished Grace decided on grass while Valerie chose to show Thimbelina how much she had grown over the winter.

 

 

 

We will miss these two and hope for a good life for them.

Another goat raiser once told me not to think of them once they left, but I do!!

Farm adventures......partly cloudy..windy ....60's

Remember last year when Clarabelle assumed "kidsitting" duties? Read the story HERE .
Well our new babies will soon be brought to our yard area and she can help again. In the meantime, she's resting up under the Lilac bush.

                        And they are resting under the milking stand,
                              their new favorite place!

Spring...............Foggy and 60's

                                                                          SPRING

Spring has sprung, the grass has riz,

we know where the flowers is!!

Everywhere that is - Flowering fruit trees, shrubs, Bluets, Spring Beauties, most bulbs, and of course Forsythia! 

 

Can you find the old timey object  almost hidden by the forsythia?