When his health forced him to retire early, he did all the cooking for his wife who then had
to go to work. His Sugar Cookies were a family favorite which he kept in a large box under the bed. He always sent my mother’s family a box of them for Christmas – one snowy year they arrived on Christmas Eve when no one expected them to get there on time – by all accounts this was the event that made that Christmas. He acquired the recipe from a neighbor who he said was a Civil War widow.
We treasure this recipe and make it often, and think of him. We still have his original cookie jar (in the photo above) it is wonderful to see these cookies in their original jar.
