365Caws is now in its 14th year of publication, and was originally intended to end after 365 days. It has sometimes been difficult for me to find new material, particularly during the winter months, but now as I enter my own twilight years, I cannot guarantee that I will be able to provide daily posts. It is my hope that along the way I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world. If so, I can rest, content in the knowledge that my work here has been done.
Sunday, December 7, 2014
Traditions
Day 55: Okay, call me a sappy sentimentalist if you will, but even though there's no one around to share them with me, there are certain traditions I observe in connection with the holidays. One of them is baking cookies on St. Nicholas Day, and it usually takes form as Spritz, those wonderfully almondy, butter-rich "cookie-press" cookies. I'm always rather heavy-handed with the sugar sparkles...cookies should be festive, don't you agree?...and in the days that follow, I will ration myself to no more than half a dozen each day in the interest of keeping my uniform trousers zippable.
Labels:
cookies,
holidays,
spritz,
St. Nicholas Day,
tradition
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