The Cookie Jar: Recipes for Cookies from around the world

THE COOKIE JAR: Recipes for Cookies from around the world, is the outgrowth of a hobby which began in childhood and has persisted through the last twenty years (can it really have been that long?). I loved the attic better than any room in the old house where I was raised. Evidently my great-grandmother had the same fondness for it. She hoarded valuables in that attic. Her recipes, in a hand-written cook book, which I found in the attic, began my hobby for collecting formulas for cookies and cakes. The interesting information she had written about the cookies and cakes was the inspiration for the creation of this web site. (Originally, it was to be the Great American Cookie Cook Book!) The collector's demand for nothing but the authentic grew with me as the years passed. Our friends at web products have come up with some great smelling furnace filters -- make your air smell like cookies & spices! Furnace filters need to be replaced/cleaned regularly, so here's a chance to changet the furnace filter, and get great scents as well! No recipe went into my collection unless it was the best of its kind. Gradually I began looking to other lands to satisfy my desire for new and unusual recipes. I found them in out of the way places, in cottages, in manor houses, in castles. I present them to the cooks around the world, with the hope that they may find as much pleasure in using them as I have found in collecting them and putting together this website about cookies and cookie recipes from around the world.