Bryan at 70!
Recently, we met more guys who wonder what to do with their days now that they're retired.
They should try . . .
Recently, we met more guys who wonder what to do with their days now that they're retired.
They should try . . .
Camping
Hiking
Family Trips
Reading
More Reading
Bryan only wishes he could fit in even MORE reading and researching.
BAKING
and COCKTAILS!
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Cookies Bryan made:
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Cookies Bryan made:
UKRAINIAN
JAM SWIRL COOKIES
From FOOD & WINE magazine, December,
1995
2 ½ cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
¼ pound butter, softened
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
½ tsp vanilla
1/3 cup apricot jam (preserves)
1/3 cup raspberry jam
For dusting: ¼ teaspoon sugar mixed with 2 teaspoons sugar
1. In a medium bowl, stir together flour, baking
powder, and salt. Set aside.
2. In a large bowl, cream together
butter and sugar.
3. With electric mixer, beat in eggs and
vanilla.
4. Stir in flour mixture and knead to
make a soft dough.
5. Cover with plastic wrap and
refrigerate from 2 to 4 hours.
6. Grease a cookie sheet.
7. Cut the chilled dough into two pieces
and roll into cylinder shapes.
8. Pat one cylinder into a 6 by 4
rectangle. Place it between sheets of
waxed paper. Roll it into a 12 by 7
rectangle. Peel off top sheet of waxed
paper.
9. Spread dough with one of the
preserves, leaving a ½ inch border all around.
10.Fold in the ½ inch border on the two
short edges.
11.Roll the long edge of the dough up like
a jelly-roll.
12.Place roll on cookie sheet.
13.Start oven preheating to 400.
14.Roll second piece of dough and the
other jam into a log. Place on cookie
sheet.
15.Lightly brush the tops of the logs with
water and sprinkle with cinnamon sugar.
16.Bake for 20 minutes until tops are
golden.
17.Remove from oven and let cool for 15
minutes on a wire rack.
18. Line cookie sheet with parchment
paper.
19. Slice logs into pieces about ¾ inch
thick -- like a biscotti. Put pieces on cookie sheet.
20. Bake another 10 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool.
YUMMY!
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