Rev. Megan
Berkowitz
Rev. Amy
Clark Feldman
Pastor Megan
December 20 2024
Baking Christmas Cookies
Baking Christmas cookies is one of my favorite childhood memories of this time of year. My mom, my cousin, and I got to work the week before Christmas making dozens and dozens of cookies from all different recipes. We would give the cookies away as gifts and serve them as dessert on Christmas Eve, when many family and friends piled into our house for dinner after Mass. I loved it so much that when my second grade class put together a cookbook, the recipe I added in was sugar cookie cutouts, and we continued to make and decorate that same recipe for over two decades afterwards. It’s not my favorite anymore, but it still tastes like home and like tradition.
Another cousin on the other side of my family is a pastry chef and cookbook author, and she wrote about our grandmother in her latest book about cookies, sharing how her own childhood memories of baking rugelach shaped her towards the career she has now. Whether cookies, hearty Christmas dinner recipes, French toast casserole, or fruitcake, the flavors of this season take on so much more meaning: tradition, family, and care.
Fellowship after church this Sunday is a Christmas cookie potluck, and whether you bring something homemade or store-bought, I hope you also bring a sweet story of Christmases past or loved ones whose memories you carry with you in this season, to share with one another over a cup of coffee and a cookie.
Peace,
Megan
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