Wear the old coat and buy the new book. - Austin Phelps

Mine is the boring grey wool, very warm, pea coat. Ho hum.

Friday Show-and-Tell, courtesy of Blackbird

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Italian Wine Cookies

for Badger and all that leftover wine...

1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup wine, any kind will do
1 cup vegetable or corn oil
3 1/2 to 4 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
Extra granulated sugar

Mix sugar, wine, and oil together. Set aside. Mix flour with baking powder. Incorporate the flour mixture gradually intot he wine mixture, stopping when the dough is still soft but no longer sticks to your hands. (It will stick alittle bit, it just shouldn't be goopy.)
Break off small pieces of the dough (approximately a heaping teaspoon). Roll each piece of dough into a small rope and form each rope into a round "o", pinching the ends togther. Dip the top of each cookie into the extra granulated sugar.
Place on ungreased cookie sheets and bake at 350 degrees for 20 to 30 minutes, until they are golden brown. (They do not spread.)
Makes approximately 5 dozen cookies. They store very well, and are awesome for breakfast with a cup of tea or a nice latte.

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for Joke - I could not find the Henry Petroski bit online. But I believe it's the last chapter in his book, The Book on the Bookshelf, which was a pretty good read. So keep an eye out for it or get it at the library, and read the chapter on how people organize their books - even by, gasp, color and size. Troglodytes. (Except you, Joke. No, not you.)

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I had to make a star for the top of our tree.