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chai sugar cookies --- i made this recipe for my sister: it's really very good

½c (113g) softened butter

½c (113g) thick yogurt ((i like to use yogurt instead of oil <3)

½c (100g) granulated sugar

½c (60g) powdered sugar

1 large egg

2tsp vanilla extract

2c (240g) all-purpose flour

½tsp baking soda

¼tsp salt

1 chai tea bag

beat together butter, yogurt, & sugars

add in egg & vanilla

sift in flour, baking soda, salt, & empty in the chai tea leaves

fold drys into wets until just combine

cover the batter & chill in the fridge for at least an hour

preheat oven to 350F

grease or line a baking sheet, & drop 1tb amounts of dough onto the sheet

flatten slightly & sprinkle with extra sugar

bake 9-10min

let cool on tray slightly before removing to rack to cool completely

ice once cool <3

easy icing recipe: 1c powdered sugar + 1/4tsp nutmeg + 1/4tsp cinnamon + 3tb milk

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Pekka Halonen (Finnish, 1865-1933)

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canning clementines

clementine crinkle cookies

clementine posset

clementine pound cake

clementine upside-down puddings

clementine yogurt cake

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Wild, wild Donegal (Ireland)

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1c brown sugar, packed (220g)

1c granulated sugar (200g)

1c oil ((I always sub 1c/225g thick yogurt))

1c softened butter (227g)

2tsp vanilla extract

1 large egg

3¾c flour (450g)

1tsp salt

1tsp baking soda

1tsp cream of tartar

1c coconut flakes

1c rolled oats

1c rice krispies

1c chocolate chips

2c nuts (optional)

preheat oven to 350F

cream together sugars with butter

add in yogurt & cream

mix in egg & vanilla

in a separate bowl soft together flour, salt, baking powder, & cream of tartar

fold in drys & mix-ins into wet ingredients

take 1tb amounts of dough and space evenly apart on a greased baking sheet --- press dough a bit flat with a fork as they won't spread

bake for 12-15min

my grandmother's cookies -- makes ~95 (!)

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ghraybeh (shortbread cookies)

ka'ek (anise date cookies)

maamoul (date-stuffed semolina cookies)

makrouta (pinwheel date cookies)

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cranberry bars

180g flour ((1.5c flour))

100g granulated sugar ((½c))

½tsp baking powder

1/8tsp salt ((a pinch))

¼c cold butter

30g thick yogurt ((about 2tb))

1 large egg

about 1.5c cranberry sauce

50g granulated sugar ((¼c))

40g oats / oat flour ((about ½c oats))

25g thick yogurt ((about 2tb))

preheat oven to 375F

whisk together flour, 100g sugar, baking powder, & salt

cut in cold butter with the back of a fork until the mixture looks like fine crumbles

add in 30g yogurt & the egg, mix until fully combined

press dough mixture into the bottom of a greased 8x8 pan

bake at 375F for 10min

while baking, whish together the oats ((blitz into flour or use oat flour)) & 50g sugar

add in the yogurt

remove crust from oven & add the cranberry sauce onto it while warm

sprinkle oat topping on top of the cranberry sauce

bake at 375F for another 30min

remove from oven & cool fully in pan before slicing & serving

Notes: I used a pretty thick cranberry sauce; you could also use jam or jelly.

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(...I really don't want to hunt that up typo just now. I'll fix it when I fix it. The Tose Lace Kitting Book, indeed.)

Which is beyond the point. The point is, the patterns are live! Go forth and knit pretty laces!

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Intangible, by Madisen Kuhn

@madisen

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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien

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koivu ja tähti

or the birch and the star, is a finnish fairytale written by zachris topelius about two siblings, taking place during "isoviha" (great wrath) or the russian occupation in finland in 1713 to 1721

the siblings are abducted to russia as children and run away ten years later in order to make a journey to find their home in finland, guided by two birds and a memory of their homestead birch tree with a star shining through it's leaves

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recipes:

pomegranate cake

pomegranate caramels

pomegranate molasses

pomegranate oatmeal chocolate chip cookies

pomegranate pie

pomegranate syrup

pomegranate turkish delight

pomegranate & hazlenut chocolate chip cake (gf)

pomegranate & lemon cookies, with white chocolate drizzle

pomegranate & orange scones

pomegranate & sea salt dark chocolate tart

pomegranate & walnut banana bread

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poems I loved in december

Paruyr Sevak, "To Go Mad"

Anne Sexton, "December 18th"

Ted Hughes, "Lovesong"

Chris Abani, "Ritual is Journey"

Franz Wright, "Untitled"

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "A Prayer"

Willie Perdomo, "Maybe Under Some Other Sky"

Osip Mandelstam,'You took away all the oceans and all the room', (translated by Clarence Brown and W. S. Merwin)

Osip Mandelstam, "Tenderer than tender" transl. D. Smirnov-Sadovsky

Richard Siken, "Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out"

Michael Miller, "December"

Vladimir Mayakovsky, "A Cloud in Trousers"

Mohja Kahf, “Most Wanted”

Louise Glück, "Winter Recipes from the Collective"

Vladimir Mayakovsky, "Listen"

Fear, Czesław Miłosz, Robert Hass (translator)

Hope, Czesław Miłosz, Robert Hass (translator)

Charles Bukowski, "a vote for the gentle light"

Marina Tsvetaeva, "I Opened My Veins" (translated by Elaine Feinstein)