This is it! 50th class reunion for the

Wyandotte High School Class of 1959! I am amazed it has been 50 years, yet there are days.....you know the ones. Knees hurt, eyes won't cooperate, can't remember what you were looking for in the open refrigerator before you! I doubt very much if any of us old Bulldogs will feel those failures this weekend. We will dance to the rock'n roll, we will do the twist, sing the lyrics to all the songs we loved back then. We will eat too much, probably a few will drink too much. We will wonder who the hell is that at the next table, we will wish we were in jeans and flip flops. We will make it to the ladies room a few times to make sure the hair still looks okay, lipstick has not crept up the lines that didn't use to be around our lips. The guys will wonder if anyone noticed the lack of hair and the abundance of waistline. But around midnight on Saturday night, we will smile and hug our friends, we will make promises to keep in touch now that we have been reunited. We will say goodbye as if we may never see them again..... for in reality....we probably won't. Therefore, I am going to make the most of this weekend!

The cookbook that Jack Smithson and I started compiling almost 2 years ago will be unveiled during the reunion. Actually, there won't be any unveiling....each class member who attends the reunion will receive a gift bag when they arrive. One of the gifts will be a copy of the cookbook! I am so amazed at the response we received when we put out the call for recipes and family histories. Its a BIG cookbook!

One of the recipes submitted was for Snickerdoodles, a recipe from way back then! What highschool kid didn't love to come home to the aroma of freshly baked cookies? We are all still that kid....Cookies are still a favorite.

Snickerdoodles
Dorothy Faerber Smith
Dorothy says: "This recipe makes about 7 dozen cookies."
3 cups sugar
3/4 cup ground cinnamon
2 sticks butter
1/2 pound lard
3 cups sugar
4 large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
5 1/3 cups flour
4 teaspoons cream of tartar
2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
Pour first 3 cups of sugar in a large plastic bag, add the cinnamon. Secure bag and shake vigorously, then empty into a medium bowl. Set aside.
With an electric mixer, mix butter, lard, 3 cups sugar, eggs and vanilla. Cream well.
Add the dry ingredients, mix well.
Take a handful of the dough with floured hands and roll into a small log; next pick off enough dough to form ball a little larger than a walnut and drop into the cinnamon-sugar mixture. Repeat forming balls until you have 5 or 6, then roll them around in the sugar. shake them off then place on a lightly greased cookie sheet. You will have room for about a dozen per cookie sheet.
Bake at 400 degrees for 10 minutes. Take off sheet and cool on rack.

Snickerdoodles, Toll House, Gingerbread, the oldies are definitely goodies! Even an old woman from the Class of 1959!