Recipe Roots ™ - Grandma Appolonia's Travel Cookies
I just love recipes with some history. When you make them, it feels like you are connecting to the past and sharing traditions with the future. I'm going to share some legendary family recipes with you in a series called Recipe Roots™ - Great recipes worth digging up and sharing!
First up, are Grandma Appolonia's Travel Cookies! Grandma Appolonia or "Lonia" as she was called, was my Dad's mother and I used to love visiting her apartment in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was a widow and used to babysit for some wealthy families to earn money to travel. She had amassed a great collection of travel souvenirs on her adventures and I can remember oogling them all! I'm sure she loved when all six of us came and touched her stuff with our sticky little fingers!
When Lonia would come from Ohio to visit us in Pennsylvania (12+ hours on a Greyhound Bus - yikes!), she would often make these sugar cookies on her visit. Now, we were a large family and I don't recall having cookies and treats around very often, so when they did appear, they wouldn't last long! In an attempt to make the cookies last until dessert time, Lonia would hide them in my Mom's roasting pan. My brothers caught on to that hiding trick pretty quickly and would hunt down that old roaster no matter where she had tucked it away.
Those cookies became the treat we would bring with us in the big ol' family station wagon on the long treks to visit family in Cincinnati. Eventually, they became our "travel cookies." The travel cookies are still made frequently. They are my go to sugar cookie for any season. I just add some sprinkles to match to the occasion. My girls love to help make them! When the family gets together for Christmas, I still have to hide them or they would disappear before dessert!
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