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Cranberry-Pistachio Bars
Back to cookie making. These bars are quite festive looking, especially for the holidays, because of the bright red cranberries and the green-tinted pistachios (but they don’t photograph well). They...
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Grandma Sylvia’s Lemon Bars
My mother made the world’s best lemon bars. Tart, sweet, and rich, every body loves Grandma Sylvia’s lemon bars. My daughter inherited the lemon bar gene, and her lemon bars are as good as her...
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Rugelach (Grandma’s Butter Cookies)
When I was young, there were two cookies that captured the essence of home and tradition. They were “rugelach” (sometimes called “der ahnderer” or the other ones) and “der geralte”, the rolled ones,...
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Oatmeal Coconut Snack Bars
I snack a lot – in the office, in the car on the way home – basically, all the time. One of my principles is that a snack should be 4 grams of fat or less. Of course you can snack on lots of non-fat...
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Chocolate Chip Meringue Cookies
These are lighter than air cookies that still have a bit of crunch to their outer shell. They are also reasonably chocolaty and very low in fat. These cookies are meringues, which are essentially egg...
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Chocolate Mistake Cookies
The latkes were not the only disaster for the Hannukah party. For the inevitable potluck, I planned to make a plate of cookies, including the famous lemon bars and an old recipe I found among my...
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Molasses Spice Cookies
One of the joys of baking lots of cookies over the holiday season is that you have them in the freezer, waiting to accompany a cup of nice hot tea when you come home after struggling your way through...
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Zucchini Cookies
There was still zucchini left even after making zucchini bread. That thing was huge! It has gotten decidedly chilly, and time to bake things to warm the kitchen up. My television and comfy chairs are...
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Thumbprint Cookies
My little congregation in having a musical Sabbath tonight. To be precise, the klezmer band “The Kosher Red Hots” will play. Klezmer is a musical tradition of the Ashkenazic Jews of Eastern Europe....
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Jam Bars
These are the perfect last minute cookies. You know, your child announces that cookies are needed at school in the morning, or you need something for an unexpected event. They are bar cookies, always...
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