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One of my annual Christmas traditions is to make Grandma's jello cookies. For the past several years, I have invited a couple of kids and/or students over to help make them. This year, living in Denver, my nephew got in on the fun!
It is a blessing to be able to stay connected to family and carry on traditions such as these. The cookies can be made any time of year, but I do them at Christmas and use lime and cherry or strawberry jello to get the red and green cookies, as pictured below.
The recipe is not a family secret, so I will share it here and ask if you have any traditional family Christmas recipes you enjoy making each year.
Jello Cookies
From the kitchen of Michelle J. Goff’s Grandma Cobb
1 cup sugar
1 3oz box Jello
3/4 cup shortening (or ½ cup shortening ¼ cup butter)
2 eggs
3 cups flour (divided)
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
Mix sugar and Jello.
Add shortening and eggs, blending well.
Sift dry ingredients (2 ½ cups flour, 1 tsp. baking powder, 1 tsp salt). Blend.
Gradually use remaining flour on rolling pin and on flat surface to roll out dough and cut cookies.
Roll out to 1/4” thickness. Cut and place on greased baking sheet.
Bake at 375o for 5-8min. Yield: 4 dozen cookies
Note: I usually make 1 recipe of lime cookies and 1 recipe of cherry or strawberry. The lime batter always tends to come out drier, so I use ¼ - ½ cup less of flour in the green cookies.
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Take a moment and reflect on the happiest Christmas moment you've every experienced - the joy of Christmas morning on a child's face, the perfectly-full feeling after a meal made with love, family members gathered around the tree surrounded in wrapping paper and boxes, time together with loved ones...
Christmas is not all about the happiness and the presents. For some, it brings a sadness or a longing for what used to be or what could have been. This may be your first holiday season without a loved one nearby. Your expectations for a happy holiday time with family may be far from being met for one reason or another this year.
Whatever your Christmas experience this year, I encourage you on this Throwback Thursday to look back and cling to hope and true joy - not only the joy of the Christ-child coming to earth, but the hope of the resurrection and the promise of a new life in Him.
May the Lord bless you richly this CHRISTmas with hope and joy.