Rosettes

[lydamorehouse]

It's the day before the day before Christmas, so we made rosettes.  If you've never had a rosette, here's what Wikipedia says about them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosette_(cookie).  Even though these are Norwegian, my Polish grandma made them to (or bought them somewhere, but I'm guessing made.)  I have fond memories of these crispy, sugar coated cookies.

Since I love my photo montages, here's one of that process:

Comments

[naomikritzer]

Those look AWESOME. (And delicious.)

[zyzyly.livejournal.com]

that is so cool--I want to make them!

Nice!

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

I used to make them with my aunt.

[offcntr.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I miss these things! Rosettes, and lefse in the grocery stores are two things I miss most about southwestern Wisconsin.

Which grandma, maternal or paternal?

Frank

[lydamorehouse]

Just bought lefse at Kowalski's the other day so we could have it with Thanksgiving dinner.

And to answer your question, the Polish gramma was on my father's side. Because you know, Morehouse is just such a German name (my grandfather spoke German) and married a Weiland, who spoke Polish, and who has.... a German sounding name.

I once did one of those genetic things hoping to figure out where we all came from but forgot I was female, which means they can really only tell my maternal side from the X chromosome, and that side of the family is some weird haplogroup u8b.