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Write about someone trying to recreate a grandparent’s signature baked good from memory.

Posted in Kids on Oct 26, 2022

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“Just Like Gran Used To Make” by Victoria Lucas

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I grew up telling people that my gran was the greatest baker in the world. Sugar and spice seemed to bend to her will and everything that she made was nothing short of a miracle. I don’t think it was in her to make something that didn’t taste good. I was convinced that she could boil an old shoe and somehow make it a palatable experience. Her apple pie could bring a tear to your eye and her Sunday supper biscuits were something so divine that they gave birth to a whole new religion that I heard is still practiced to this day in a small town ...

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“Bittersweet Cookies of Memories ” by Jocelyn Kwa

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Bells, chimes, carollers, ring in my ears as I walk down the street. The smell of pine and that oh-so-familiar cold winter breeze overflow all my senses, overtaking me, filling every inch of my body, all of which screaming the same thing -- Christmas. Perhaps one ought to be jolly in this season, with all the presents and hot cocoa and tree corpses flooding in the streets -- and oh, one shall not forget -- cookies. But Christmas was just never it for me -- recurring every year only to open up and sprinkle salt in the wounded memory of that...

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“Bourbon Balls ” by Claudia Cook

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      It was nearing wintertime and every winter my great great grandmother would make bourbon balls and I had to deliver them to the neighbors. It was like an eleventh commandment I had to follow. I desperately wanted to make them myself and deliver them to the neighbors during this crazy time. Only problem was she had passed when I was twelve…and I could not exactly remember how to make them. I had been having memory lapses lately and not the good kind. I think it might have been the weather or something She...

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“Sugar-Tinted Memories” by Brianna A.

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Flour dusted across every surface in Kate’s kitchen, turning the inside of her apartment into a winter wonderland. The sharp scent of cinnamon and mixed spice permeated the air, filling her nostrils with a tangy Christmas smell. If only the smell itself could turn into cookies.  For three hours now, Kate had been smashing and rolling dough, mixing different ingredients together in an attempt to recreate her grandfather’s famous gingerbread cookies. The recipe itself had long been lost, written down only on a scrap piece of paper, eith...

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“Rosie's Cookies” by Jessica Inman

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“Nope, not this one.” Chocolate chips and crumbs cascaded onto the floral tea-plate as I bit into the still-warm cookie and quickly discarded it.Ma sighed.“What's wrong with it this time?”“It's too sweet. Too many chocolate chips or something. Try it again with less chocolate or less sugar.”“I've made six batches, don't you think this is enough?”“Please Ma, I just want to taste them again. The way Nanna used to make them.” I gave her my best pleading look, imitating sobbing eyes and sticking my lower lip out.Ma sighed again.“This is the last...

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“Grandma's Cookies ” by Margaret Kubisch

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Throughout the month of December my families do a lot of cooking. Every year I watch my grandma make her famous cookies. We call them wreaths. She makes them so perfectly I don’t think I could ever make them just as good. As she sets them out on the table Christmas Day my cousins and family are grabbing them right off the plate before she can set them all out. This year I decided that I was going to try and make them, just to surprise her. I think that it would make her super happy and excited that I wanted to make something just like her. I...

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“Chocolate Dessert” by Rain Burrows

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~1000 Words Chocolate Dessert by Rain Burrows I’m eight, laying on the folded-down seats of my parent’s Volvo station wagon. My two younger brothers are next to me, head-toe-head like Lincoln in a log cabin. The Missouri River passes under us as we pass over the bridge and cross, mercifully, into Nebraska. I’m supposed to be asleep, I’m wide awake. Battered by duffle bags and loose books, it’s impossible to doze off. My “bunk” is hidden from the front row by a small CRT-TV/VHS player wedged between the driver’s and passenger’s seat on the fr...

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“In honour of thy Lamington” by Reginald Claver

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Grandma Valerie didn’t take much to the grave with her, even her headstone simply read “Valerie Gerschwitz. Sister - Drinker - Loner. R.I.P.”. It’s funny the things you remember people by when they’re gone. All I seem to remember about Grandma Val is her curmudgeonly demeanour, and her ability to create the most magical Lamingtons I have ever tasted.  Our family has never been spoilt with wealth on any limb of the tree and the older generation, especially Grandma Val’s, struggled to make ends meet most of their existence. A century ol...

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“Grandma's Sugar Cookie Pie” by Charlotte Lewis

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Grandma's Sugar Cookie Pie My cousin is not a cook. Never has been and probably never will be. Last weekend she stopped by for a chat and I invited her to stay for dinner. That sounded rather marvelous to her, she said, as she hadn't planned anything for dinner. She's single, forty, and skinny as all get out. I'm not sure she eats three meals a day. An hour before dinner time, I went to the kitchen to begin preparing dinner. Charlene, that's my cousin, followed and sat on one of the breakfast stools to chat and watch. I decided that the ...

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“A GRAIN OF SUGAR” by Mara Masolini

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A GRAIN OF SUGAR Rosy was still crouched under the Christmas tree she had just finished to decorate.  The comet on the top of the spruce was yellow, of a bright, but also soft yellow, like that….just like that yellow. Suddenly she seemed she was seeing them, as if they were there, under her eyes…..they, the cookies which her grandmother Adele made once every year, the cookies named DUCK TAIL , which she and her sisters, and the all family, could eat from Christmas Eve to Epiphany. Those very special cookies were reserved ...

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“The Real Recipe” by Troy Lane

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“Are you ready for this?” Sarah positioned a stool by the counter and motioned for eight-year-old Isa to hop on.  “Affirmative mum,” Isa added her quirky three-finger salute as she took her seat, raised her eyebrows and smiled.“Do we have everything we need?” Sarah listed ingredients counting each one off with an extended finger. Each time Isa nodded decidedly with the obligatory “Yep.” Sarah turned the oven on to preheat, smiled at Isa and studied the ingredients.  “We’ve proven that your Nanna is of no help with th...

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“Girls are Stronger than 'Sugar and Spice'” by Sylver Nguyen

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I can’t do it. I cannot do it. Grandmother always said to never say never but Grandmother has never felt the heartbreak of this instance. She always made pastries and ice cream and cakes and sweets of all sorts for me. She always took me aside from the loud chaotic living room, lively with men discussing sports and politics, into the calm kitchen. Once, I looked up from my toy to ask what she was doing. She pointed and showed me what she was up to. Her slender fingers danced over dough gracefully. She rubbed the powder slowly and carefully b...

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“Soldier's Biscuits.” by Sam McBeath

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Sweat beaded on Kylie’s forehead, her lower back groaning under the weight of the heavy cardboard box clutched tightly to her chest, left ear sandwiched against it as her feet extending blindly reaching for the next step. When she reached the bottom— again grateful not to have fallen— she dropped the box heavily on top of another, surrounded by many more just like them. The growing pile of Pop’s belongings to be taken away. All out bvy boxing day. Not their first choice, but availability was tight around Christmas, Kylie’s mother said. Henri...

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“A Cookie Baking Type Of Mom” by Lisa Wentworth

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Write about someone trying to recreate a grandparent’s signature baked good from memory. Now, I’ve never been much of a baker. I’m great at reverse engineering fancy food I try at a fine restaurant, or throwing together this and that and creating haute cuisine. But baking requires following directions, something my Leo personality doesn’t like to do. My fire sign always thinks we know better! But as a child, there are pictures of me standing on a chair, helping my mom bake. The way my mother showed love was through cooking, and my gran...

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“New Traditions” by Sara Blanch

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It was official, her Mum or sister were going to ground her for life...depending on who came home first. The normally pristine kitchen, thanks to her Mother's borderline obsessive cleanliness as well as her sister's interior design skills was covered in sporadic splatterings of flour,sugar,nutmeg and half melted choc chips. In the midst of this culinary nightmare, Jessie sat caked in these ingredients in a sobbing mess on the silvery marble countertop. She had less than 72 hours to remember her grandmother's famous christmas loaf recipe, a r...

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