Cookies for Taste of Home Cooking School!!!

Hello,
We are so excited at the shop! Later today we are going to get the chance to meet Danielle Edmonds, Culinary Specialist, at an Appreciation Social. She will be signing autographs in the Taste of Home cookbooks that are now available for purchase. Of course we are bringing some cookies that we have made especially for her.

The next thing that we are excited about is that we will be spending the afternoon tomorrow setting up our booth at the Expo Center in Lisbon for the Taste of Home cooking show that evening. Remember, the show opens their doors at 4pm. At that time, you will be able to visit all the booths. We will be offering free sample cookies of our delicious hand painted cookie. We will have Father's Day cookies as well as occasion cookies, summer fun cookies, chocolate chip cookie cakes, decorated brownies, hand made suckers, Baklava (a special treat), all for sale. We can keep your purchases in our booth for you until the cookie show is done. That way you won't have to carry them around. I almost forgot! We will be giving away door prizes from our booth and we will have a show special on our 1 cookie bouquets.

Thank you to all that have stopped by our shop while you were attending the Smithsonian Journey Stories. It was fun to meet you and share our cookies with you. Remember, you can stop back at any time.

I promised you that we would share some of our recipes with all of you. Here is the first one:
DATE NUT BREAD
2 cups Amport chopped dates
2 cups boiling water
2 tsp. baking soda
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 tbl shortening
2 eggs
1 tsp. salt
3 cups flour
1 cup walnuts
Pour boiling water over chopped dates and soda. Let cool. Mix sugar, shortening, egg, and salt. Add the cooled date mixture, flour, and chopped nuts. Pour into two bread pans. Bake 1 hour at 350F. Remove from pans to cool on rack. It is fun to add a glaze of powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla, drizzled across the top.

Have a terrific day!
~Julie