The first memory I have in regards to cooking is of sprin(dumping)kling colored sugar on cookies before they are baked. I believe I was three years old, and it may be my oldest accessible memory.
Certainly before I could read I could roll out sugar cookie dough, cut out the cookies, carefully fitting the cookies together so as not to waste dough, and decorate them. I also put pans into the hot oven, and removed them with cotton looper potholders.
I got a set of miniature cake pans for Christmas when I was five, and after using up the miniature cake mix packaged with them, I made cakes from the Washington Flour single-layer sized mixes, measuring the ingredients when my mother read them off to me.
(pictured-not my real mother)
The following September I started school and learned to read, so by Christmas, I could read the instructions myself.
I think reading those instructions, and other recipes was my first experience of learning a new skill by reading - something I've never stopped.
Lately, I've been trying to find a recipe I remember from childhood. Pillsbury 5-way sugar cookies. I've Googling my brains out, without success.
I asked my Mother to find it, as I remember it from her notebooks, but she's stymied, too.
That WAS, until today.
After I got home from church, I Googled again, this time with 5-way (figure five hyphen way) and Google books rendered up selections from a 1949 Life magazine.
Check back tomorrow - my rendering of the recipe, and my first revisit in thirty or more years.
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