Friday, December 18, 2009

EASY AND FAST GLUTEN-FREE JAM COOKIES

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If that isn't a winter sky,I don't know what is. Winter is here, we woke up with a thin layer of snow yesterday but nothing serious really, but this weekend, beginning tonight, should on the other hand be a white one. If it comes, let's hope the snow won't stay long because Tuscany (apart from the Apennines) is not made for snow.

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Sometimes I take out my mother's old cookbooks and just sit and feel good no not only, I actually read them too get ideas and remember. I very often find pieces of paper with my father's writing on them, old seating lists for dinner parties sometimes with my name on them , often not. I love this even though it makes me miss them, my parents I mean, so much and it takes me back in time for a little while. I also find old cuttings from newspapers and magazines, recipes my mother wanted to make and today's recipe is one of them. I have no idea where it comes from, nor when it was published so I feel a little bad about posting it but it is a brilliant little cookie recipe, so simple to make and it is gluten-free as well so I decided to share it with you. And there is no need to be on a gf diet to make them, my family liked them a lot.

Quick and easy Gluten-free Jam Cookies




EASY AND FAST GLUTEN-FREE JAM COOKIES
around 25

125 g/ 4,4 oz butter, unsalted
3 tblsp sugar
1/2 egg
250 ml/ 1 cup potato or corn starch
thick jam of your own choice

- Stir butter and sugar until smooth.
- Add the half egg, stir well and then add the potato starch. Work the dough quickly.
- Make small balls that you put on baking sheets.
- Make a small hole in the middle and put a small amount of jam in each hole.
- Bake in the middle of the oven in a pre-heated oven (175°C/350°F) for about 15 minutes.

Quick and easy Gluten-free Jam Cookies

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Posted by Ilva at Friday, December 18, 2009

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16 comments:

  1. Bless you Ilva, must be hard for you.. :(  at least you have memories of your parents, and lovely things to look at or read from them Take care and Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and your family.

    Beautiful photos, as usual, very country looking, I love it :)
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  2. http://kalynskitchen.blogspot.comDec 18, 2009 07:19 AM
    I love these photos.  How fun to have some cookbooks that were your moms.  I do know how you are feeling; I really miss my mom at this time of year.
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  3. Ohh these biscuits remind me of the ones that my grandmum (mormor) always made for us, must make now when I have the christmas baking bug! Sounds very special your mums receipt book!
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  4. Beautiful! I love jam cookies. How sweet to have some of your mother's cookbooks.
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  5. Your photos are always beautiful, Ilva. And what a lovely feeling hearing how you sit reading your mom's cookbook and your dad's note. Makes me feel happy and warm reading this. And the cookies look delicious. Love jam cookies like this.
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  6. Such an interesting recipe!
    The sky is gorgeous. Here, it has been hidden behind think light-grey snow clouds since Thursday, and since then it has been snowing and snowing, white Christmas indeed.

    So wonderfully comforting, finding bits and pieces of a loved one's life. Today would have been my father's birthday, but his clock stopped when he was 61. I shall always remember him taking me out to the woods on a snowy afternoon like this, to cut our own Christmas tree and pull it home on the sled.
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  7. Ilva,
    would it be possible please to visit your commenters just like in the old days, by clicking on the name and landing on their blog, without having to go through all kinds of hurdles? 
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  9. I have a portfolio of old recipes that my mom kept.  There are comments, shopping lists scribbled on the edges, all kinds of reminders and of course blobs of melted chocolate, butter, flour etc on the papers, cards and sometimes scraps where recipes were hastily jotted down.  I think especially during the holidays we like to remember the joy our parents brought into our lives.  My Dad loved to go shopping in the markets during this time of year.  We would return home loaded with dried fruits, nuts, Panettone with glazed chestnuts and of course fresh squid for Christmas eve.... :)
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  10. <span style=" ">Lovely photo of the sky; the blue is truly celestial. The sky here is grey, alas; snow (perhaps as much as a foot) is predicted for this evening.  
     
    I find myself reading and using my mother's cookbooks all the time. She hardly used them while she was alive--she was more of an intuitive cook and baker--but she had inherited and was otherwise given many wonderful cookbooks (classic Swedish cookbooks and others; my favorite of the lot is <span style="font-style: italic;">The Vegetable Book</span>, by Jane Grigson, which is not very old--it was published in the '70s--but very well-written). The cookbooks do include several slips of paper with recipes written out in my mother's (or Mormor's) own hand, but I find it more satisfying to study the handwriting than to actually follow those particular recipes.   
     
    Regards your cookie recipe--by "half egg," do you mean half the white and half the yolk, or only the white or yolk? I don't believe I've ever seen another recipe calling for only half an egg! I would think this one calls for the yolk alone.  
     
    What is the origin of that white and black teapot? Is it an Italian design? I like it.
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  11. Alta (Tasty Eats At Home) http://tastyeatsathome.wordpress.comDec 19, 2009 08:56 PM
    Thank you for these! I just bought some raspberry jam from the farmer's market - now I know what to do with it.
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  12. My mother's cook books and recipe boxes represent her body of work here on earth as she was a full time home maker, gardener and farmer. It is so peaceful and interesting to read them.  
    It appears that your parents were very special people too.  They shared their home and connected to others through food.
    Your interests and talents represent well their convictions.
    Can you tell me the species of trees in the photo?
    And what is your take on the contrail?
    Another compelling post.
    Thank you.
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  14. So easy! I can't wait to try these.
    Merry Christmas, my dear Ilva. Love to your family.
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  15. So pretty! The photos are absolutely lovely.
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  16. Thank you to you all, it is so nice to hear that you have cookbooks from the past that inspires you. I have actually a growing idea about that that I would like to do something about in January, you just wait and see!
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