Marathon Baking

When I was a child our kitchen smelled of Christmas biscuits from November until the end of December. Many biscuits were eaten during the long evening hours when special arrangements were made for the graves in winter and more for all the lovely advent decorations. Those were the weeks when working hours hardly stopped before midnight! 

For Christmas itself all the staff, neighbours, friends and family got "a sweet plate" with homemade biscuits - and those had to be hidden well!!!!

Later, when my great-aunt and grandma had left the kitchen to my Mum, I took over baking. Cakes during the year and loads of biscuits for December.

 (December 1983)


These days we have few extra working hours and none at night any longer - still we love eating homemade biscuits at this time of the year. As December is always very busy we usually start during the auntumn (school) holidays. Our youngest daughter and I started at the beginning of November this year and filled some tins:

Yesterday I found some more tempting recipes and we did some more with the final favorite cookies today. Now all tins are filled - although the first are not full any longer.