Review: Cookies That Have Stood The Test of Time
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 28, 2012
Vintage Cookie Recipescontains thirty recipes for mostly well-known cookies that have stood the test of time and are as popular today as they were forty or fifty years ago.  I think I've baked all of these over the years, but some bring back special memories.The first time I heard of Bourbon Balls was probably about the time they were invented in the Fifties.  We were going south to spend Christmas with my mother's family in a "dry county" in North Carolina.  Leftover from Prohibition days, no alcohol could be sold in dry counties - or "imported" for that matter.  (Moonshine was quite popular!)  Knowing that my uncle quite liked a bit of bourbon now and again, my mother made a batch of Bourbon Balls to take along.  About the time that can was being passed, my tee-totaler Grandma, not realizing there was bourbon in them, decided to try one . .  and then another . . .  and then a third.  That was the only time in anyone's living memory Grandma had one too many, a topic that came up every Christmas baking season as Mom made those Bourbon Balls again.There are other goodies in here too.  Congo Bars are lovely as are the Forgotten Cookies.  The recipes are well laid out and the book does contain an interactive Table of Contents accessible from the Kindle Navigation Menu.You're sure to find some favorites in this one.  Recommended.