I like to display them in my biggest wooden bread dough bowl.
Here are the backs. You can see how crude and homemade they are. And dating from a time when I suppose a farmwife would make cookies often? Perhaps late 1800s.
Household items
scissors, my favorite |
scissors back |
key |
People
man |
lady |
baby! Or what? Ideas gratefully considered, this one's a msytery to me. |
animals
horse |
fox number One |
fox number two |
wonderful kitty |
Rabbit number one / jackrabbit |
Rabbit number two / Bunny |
lion |
whale |
Birds and Easter egg
easter egg / damaged |
swan! |
chicken |
crow |
robin |
storebought hen |
Eagle or Christmas turkey Stars |
Star with tulips |
open star |
Miscellaneous
holly leaf? |
cracker |
There were hearts too but keep them with my rather large heart cooky cutter collection.I don't make cutout fancy cookies anymore. So each year I look at this collection and think, Should I sell them? I know they're collectible. But someday---far in the future, when I have a new little grand-helper?---I hope to make a gingerbread Noah's Ark.
This year I made simple shortbread cookies. No one here eats sweets [I threw out 3/4 of the Thanksgiving cheesecake, so sad.] but I feel a holiday dinner needs---something?
I used my grandmother's springerle pin.
It's hand carved, I think pearwood? And it needs a handle repair.
Nothing special but they'll be something to offer on Christmas Day with a cup of tea?
Mo thinks they'll be delish!
love
lizzy
gone to the beach..........
cold but sparkling |