Sorry- busy week!

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I was going to do some more scans and posts, and then life interferred and I didn't have time. But I will, promise.  Meanwhile, here is my grandmother's recipe for Goopy Gobs:

Goopy Gobs (Grandma Kepple)

4 cups flour

2 cups sugar

½ tsp. baking powder

½ cup Crisco

2 tsp. baking soda

½ cup cocoa

1 cup sour milk (to make sour milk put 3 Tbs. vinegar into cup then fill with milk)

1 cup boiling water

1 tsp. vanilla

Cream sugar and Crisco

Put soda in milk

Mix dry ingredients and add all together

Mix

Drop by teaspoonfuls onto greased cookie sheet

Bake at 350 degrees till done, about 10 min.

Icing

½ cup Crisco

2 Tbs. butter

1 egg

2 cups powdered sugar

1 tsp. vanilla

½ tsp. salt

2 Tbs. flour

Mix all together

Stick back sides of 2 cookies together with icing

 

Very fond memories of these from my childhood

Comments

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The salmonella thing is not just an awareness issue; it arises from a change in the way poultry is raised and processed. Free range poultry almost never has salmonella issues, but birds that are caged too closely and not cleaned enough end up pecking a lot of feces (their own and their cage-mates) which spreads a number of unpleasant things.

I hadn't thought about that, and it makes a lot of sense.