Christmas cookies are missing from the list of seasonal food I serve at Christmas time.
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| Cooking and Catering |
A biscuity item I bake each year is "Scotch shortbread" . The recipe comes via my husband's step-grandmother,
Isabella Scott, and was published in "Cooking and Catering" compiled by the
Arcadia Methodist Ladies sometime in the 1950s.
As a young bride I was given a copy of this book by Isa who religiously baked shortbread for the extended family each year. When Isa moved from the family home at
Arcadia to a retirement village I started baking multiple batches of shortbread for the family and continue to do so each year.
Isa's recipe was a little short on instructions so I annotated her recipe in the book with cooking instructions dictated to me by Isa.
The book contains many recipes that are still useful in today's climate. I have reproduced another of my favourites below.
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| A Favourite Recipe |
Until I started writing this post I hadn't thought much about the little cookbook that features quite a number of Isa's recipes. I am now going to copy the little book and store the original with my genealogy files as it is a printed resource that gives information about Isa and her activities.
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