Thank You!

Thank you!
 
Karen and Steve’s (Leverton) wedding was beautiful and the day was a special one.   So, thanks for your prayers, patience, and support.  We’ve learned that weddings are not exactly as easy as they used to be --- but still lots of fun!

The honeymooner’s are off to a private cabin and will be home sometime next weekend, so we’re back to a normal pace of life, if you could believe Ken and I have a normal pace.

Over the past month I have been asked by several people for the famous “Hubbard Cookie Recipe” so here you go:

Wet:  1 cup butter (yes butter)

1 cup sugar
2 eggs (well beaten)
1 teaspoon vanilla (yes real vanilla)

Dry:  1 teaspoon baking powder

½ teaspoon salt
3 ½ cups flour (no not self rising, or bread flour, just that good ole’ cheap flour)

To put this all together is really pretty simple.  Ask Karen, and she’ll say, “It’s very important to allow the butter to come to room temperature, and then cream the other ingredients together.”  Ask me; dump it all into the Kitchen Aide. 

Then simply add the dry ingredients, start with the baking powder, salt, and half the flour.  Then add the rest of the flour.  (Karen’s version:  slowly add dry ingredients, Mom, just dump it!)

I will tell you the trick however is kneading flour into the dough, after you’ve got everything is mixed.  (As a child Karen and her brothers used this as their “Play Dough”, and baked it in an “Easy Bake Oven”.  Kids love this cookie.

The cookies do need to be rolled to ¼” thickness and baked at 325 for 10-13 minutes, depending on the oven and thickness of the cookie.  The cookie should be firm to touch, but not brown.

Eat them hot out of the oven, Ken’s favorite, frost with Butter Cream Frosting (my favorite), or use Royal Icing (Karen’s preferred)

Now to the rest of the story, this cookie’s name:  “Texas Tea Cakes” it’s been in the Campbell family since Aunt Ollie gave it to my Mom (8 generations to me) and has been cooked on an open fire in a Dutch Oven and most recently in a Convection Oven.

Enjoy, and thanks again for all the love you have shared with us.