Rose’s Christmas Cookies by Rose Levy Beranbaum

Hardcover

From the author: It was my friend Jeanne Bauer who encouraged me to write this book by giving me all of her mother’s favorite recipes. She said that every Christmas when she returned home for a visit, her mother would always have saved some dough so that they could make cookies together. Jeanne said that when one’s hands are busy it somehow makes it possible to say things one might not otherwise feel comfortable sharing.
This book, however, is more than just for Christmas. Of course there are classic Christmas cookies but most of the cookies can be made year ’round. My brother Michael, prior owner of Pet Food Express in California, insisted that I include a cookie for dogs and a friend from Maine contributed the “Bona Fidos.” There’s even a Nôtre Dame cookie cathedral in gingerbread with flying buttresses and candy stained glass windows. The original was displayed in the window of Scribner’s book store on Fifth Avenue in New York City along with many copies of the book. Growing up in NYC it was a moment of glory!