light corn syrup
Brown Sugar Fudge
Mary’s Caramel Puff Corn
Old Fashioned Lace Cookies
The Story
It was by far one of the most popular television segments I’ve ever done. In fact, I received requests for several years after a baking segment we aired about Old Fashioned Lace Cookies. Now, as I was enjoying a hot summer day indoors, happily lost in a good book (one of my antique cookbooks, Mary Margaret McBride’s Encyclopedia of Cooking), I stumbled across the recipe for one of the most unexpectedly simple and elegant cookies of all time. I’m struck once again (as I am so often while researching your heirloom recipes) at the clever inventiveness of this creation. A little corn syrup, a little butter, brown sugar, some chopped nuts, and into the oven they go, teaspoonfuls of caramel-colored globs. But in no time at all, out come beautiful and bubbling discs of sugared antique lace! I love this recipe for a lot of reasons. I love it because it’s easy. I love it because it always has such a surprise finish. And I love it because you do. Please give these Old Fashioned Lace Cookies a try and let me know how you like them! They are wonderful served by themselves or piped with your favorite filling.