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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi
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To: Rick Julian who wrote (19862)3/19/1999 9:24:00 PM
From: Rambi   of 71178
 
Funny that mama topic has come up--- I just managed to knock over one of my recipe boxes and 3000000 little 3x5s flew all over the floor-- and as I cursed and started picking them up, there was my mother's molasses cookies recipe in her handwriting, staring up at me-accusingly. She probably did that intentionally from the great beyond to make me feel guilty for my filthy mouth.

There's something about seeing the handwriting of someone you loved who's gone that gets you... not that my mother could write legibly. I probably make those cookies all wrong cuz she wrote so horribly. She used to write in Gregg's (or is it Grigg?)shorthand-- I'd get letters from her in college where she'd forget and start writing in these weird squiggles and loops. I'd call her and say, "Mom, you're going to have to translate this-- dash with a loop on the end and a line and then..." She finally started typing everything. Anyway, she used to make these cookies--they're sort of invincible, like cookies of steel. You could ship them anywhere in the world and they'd stay intact and edible for months. Mom's Mighty Molasses Mounds. She'd send huge boxes of them to my dorm. I used to trade them for those Cape Cod potato chips in the cannisters. I loved those things.

Now my kids call them Mommy cookies. And I imagine I'll be shipping them off next year to some dorm....and CW will trade them for beer and women.
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