{"id":50,"date":"2010-11-29T00:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T04:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nancyoster.com\/?p=50"},"modified":"2010-11-29T00:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T04:45:00","slug":"sugar-shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nancyoster.com\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"Sugar Shock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was our annual Cookie Bake. It has been 16 years since we started this tradition. My family really likes to bake cookies. Our grandparents made lots of cookies and candy during the holidays, and other times of year as well.<\/p>\n<p>So we gather on the Saturday after Thanksgiving to share this tradition with the next generations.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_-tLtmcfPU8M\/TPLLPPgX4TI\/AAAAAAAABDs\/CKdLkEe_aD8\/s1600\/Ralph%2526Mila.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 350px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_-tLtmcfPU8M\/TPLLPPgX4TI\/AAAAAAAABDs\/CKdLkEe_aD8\/s400\/Ralph%2526Mila.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5544717553967292722\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The youngest kids do the decorating, although some of the older generations participate. Dave&#8217;s sister made up a really large batch of icing and the kids colored it.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_-tLtmcfPU8M\/TPLL8etNBVI\/AAAAAAAABD0\/D7NRkzPZc9s\/s1600\/Icing.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_-tLtmcfPU8M\/TPLL8etNBVI\/AAAAAAAABD0\/D7NRkzPZc9s\/s400\/Icing.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5544718331141752146\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>She also brought a load of sprinkles.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_-tLtmcfPU8M\/TPLMglmVLLI\/AAAAAAAABD8\/DPPcDPmC7eg\/s1600\/Sprinkles.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 291px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_-tLtmcfPU8M\/TPLMglmVLLI\/AAAAAAAABD8\/DPPcDPmC7eg\/s400\/Sprinkles.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5544718951467265202\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Most of these ended up on just a few cookies. At one point there was a contest. The theme seemed to be More is Better.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few of the simpler ones.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_-tLtmcfPU8M\/TPM0ViiBooI\/AAAAAAAABEk\/jsB2WoNW-N4\/s1600\/IcedCookies.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_-tLtmcfPU8M\/TPM0ViiBooI\/AAAAAAAABEk\/jsB2WoNW-N4\/s400\/IcedCookies.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5544833110874628738\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Here are some that were in the competition. The prize was&#8230; a cookie!<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_-tLtmcfPU8M\/TPLOoJfvWmI\/AAAAAAAABEU\/DViUKhoERgE\/s1600\/CookieComp.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 274px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_-tLtmcfPU8M\/TPLOoJfvWmI\/AAAAAAAABEU\/DViUKhoERgE\/s400\/CookieComp.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5544721280385636962\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Meanwhile, the older family members were working away in the kitchen on various batches of dough they&#8217;d brought to try out this year. One was chocolate chipotle.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_-tLtmcfPU8M\/TPLNsx1fE5I\/AAAAAAAABEM\/PIWDhG2sKiw\/s1600\/Cookies.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 295px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_-tLtmcfPU8M\/TPLNsx1fE5I\/AAAAAAAABEM\/PIWDhG2sKiw\/s400\/Cookies.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5544720260422112146\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">(photo stolen from Ed)<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">So we&#8217;re off to a good start for the holiday season. As you can guess it&#8217;s not so much about the cookies as the chance to be together doing something we enjoy.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_-tLtmcfPU8M\/TPLQOFGUQPI\/AAAAAAAABEc\/36FVv74Dj9U\/s1600\/CookieMakers.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 362px; height: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_-tLtmcfPU8M\/TPLQOFGUQPI\/AAAAAAAABEc\/36FVv74Dj9U\/s400\/CookieMakers.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5544723031551918322\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was our annual Cookie Bake. It has been 16 years since we started this tradition. My family really likes to bake cookies. Our grandparents made lots of cookies and candy during the holidays, and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyoster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyoster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyoster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyoster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyoster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyoster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyoster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyoster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyoster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}