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Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies and Hope for Uncertain Times (Part 2)

  Welcome to my homestead. After writing about Grandma Hulda and sharing our family’s recipe for old fashion pinwheel date cookies I thought I would share another great recipe and such a classic; Chocolate Chip cookies! Oh don’t you just love a freshly baked, still warm from the oven, chocolate chip cookie? It takes me …

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Pinwheel Date Cookies ~ Hope in Uncertain Times (Part 1, Grandma Hulda’s Story)

My maternal grandmother died 30 years ago in 1987, and yet as I did some research and started to write this piece, it felt like she was across the room, moving rhythmically in her rocking chair and sharing her story in her sing songy, Swedish voice that I loved. If you want to make a …

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