Sky Watch (To Cold To Snow)

One my never know what one sky will be doing from minute to minute.
Or where it’s going to be from place to place.
That why I find Sky Watch Friday exciting.
Recently around here it been super cold down in the single number and bright blue sky’s

I’m up before the sun comes up and I know it might cold out side. If below zero it cold we were 4-10s of degree below zero.
But there’s been talk about snow coming over the weekend. Well it will need to cloud up more.
Soon as the sun was up and there mainly blue sky’s but now the mountain are getting cloud cover and clouds are starting to cover the Kootenai valley

I though Murphy ideal of doing an outdoor Christmas tree out of chicken wire was sort of a good ideal. But after we put on the lights. I thought it was a grand ideal once it was all lit up

I been working and doing ok the other day my Aunt Eve and I made two batches of cookies one was Texas something or other which the singes Judds
Oh I’m thankful for google I put in a search for “Judds cookies Texas” and came up with this basic recipe.

Lizzies
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup butter
2 cups flour
4 eggs, beaten
3 tsp. soda
3 Tbs. milk
2/3 cup whiskey
1 tsp. nutmeg, allspice, cinnamon
1 lb. seeded raisins or dates
1 1/2 cups broken pecans
1/2 lb. candied cherries
1 lb. candied pineapple

Combine ingredients. Drop by spoonfuls onto greased baking sheet and bake at 250 degrees for 20 minutes. Makes about 5 dozen.

LIZZIES
1 (15-ounce) box raisins
1/2 cup bourbon, rum or cognac
1/4 cup butter
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon powdered cloves
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon allspice
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon soda
1/2 pound candied pineapple, chopped
1/4 pound candied orange, chopped
1/4 pound candied citron, chopped
1/4 pound glace cherries, quartered
1/4 pound candied lemon, chopped
3 cups chopped nuts, pecans, walnuts or almonds.

1. Preheat the oven to 325.
2. Soak the raisins in the bourbon, rum or cognac.
3. Cream butter and sugar together. Beat in eggs.
4. Sift together the flour, cloves, nutmeg, allspice, salt and soda. Fold into the batter.
5. Mix the soaked raisins and liquor with the remaining ingredients and stir into the flour mixture.
6. Drop by tablespoons on to a greased cooky sheet and bake about 15 minutes, or until lightly browned. Cool on a rack and then store in an airtight tin.
Yield: About four dozen.

Lizzies
1/4 cup margarine
1/2 cup light brown sugar
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups sifted flour
1 1/2 teaspoons soda
1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon cloves
1 pound raisins
1/2 cup bourbon
1 pound pecan halves
1/2 pound citron, diced
1 pound candied cherries.

Cream margarine; gradually beat in sugar. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Sift flour with soda and spices; add to butter mixture. Soak raisins in bourbon at least 1 hour to plump; then add to butter mixture along with nuts and fruit. Drop from teaspoon on buttered cookie sheets. Bake in a 325 F. oven about 15 minutes. Store in airtight container. Can be frozen. Makes 120.
NOTE: These cookies are especially good with holiday eggnog.

Lizzies
Using a recipe from a friend in Texas, Mrs. Utley will bake these hearty morsels known as Lizzies. Ingredients call for one half cup brown sugar, one third cup butter, two eggs well beaten, one wine glass whiskey, 1 1/2 teaspoon soda, 1 1/2 tablespoons milk, 1 1/2 cups flour, one pound each whole pecan meats and dates chopped, 1/2 pound candied pineapple chopped, and one pound candied cherries, halved.

Cream sugar and butter, add beaten eggs. Mix fruit with half the flour. To the egg batter, add the remaining flour, soda, salt, milk, then the whiskey. Mix well with floured fruit. Drop on well greased cookie sheet. Bake in slow oven (300-325) for 25 minutes.

LIZZIES
2 pounds candied cherries
2 pounds candied pineapple
1 pound dark raisins or chopped dates
1 pound white raisins
6 cups chopped pecans
6 or 6 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, divided
1/2 cup butter
1 1/2 cups brown sugar, firmly packed
4 eggs
1 cup pineapple juice
3 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon (optional)
1 teaspoon ground allspice (optional)
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg (optional)
1 teaspoon ground cloves (optional)
3 teaspoons soda

Cut fruit into small pieces. Combine fruit and nuts; dredge in 1 cup flour and set aside.

Cream butter and sugar; add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add pineapple juice, milk, and dry ingredients; mix well. Add fruit and nuts. Work well with hands so fruit is well mixed. Drop teaspoonfuls onto greased cookie sheet. Bake at 275 degrees for 12 to 15 minutes. Yield: 24 dozen.

CHRISTMAS LIZZIES
Sarah Thomas
2 sticks softened butter or margarine
1 c. light brown sugar
4 eggs
3 cups flour, sifted
3 T. milk
3 t. soda
1/2 c. candied pineapple, chopped fine
1 lb. white raisins
1 lb. candied cherries, chopped fine
1 1/2 lb. pecans, chopped
1 t. each cloves, nutmeg & cinnamon
1 c. grape juice

In a large mixing bowl cream butter and sugar. Add eggs one at a time. Mix fruit and nuts and 1 cup of the flour with the creamed mixture.

Dissolve the soda in the milk; add 2 c. flour and stir in with the grape juice. Drop by teaspoon onto greased cookie sheet. Store in tightly covered container. Bake 375 degrees for 12-14 minutes.

Christmas Fruitcake Lizzies
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup butter
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cloves
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
2 eggs, beaten
1 1/2 tablespoons milk
1 1/2 cups flour (divided)
1/2 pound seedless white raisins
1/2 pound dates, chopped
1 pound candied cherries, cut in half
1/2 pound citron, chopped (optional)
1 pound pecans, chopped or halved
6 tablespoons whiskey or brandy

Heat oven to 250 degrees. Cream together sugar, butter, soda, cloves, nutmeg, and cinnamon. Add beaten eggs and mix well, then add milk and 1 cup flour. Place the combined fruits and pecans in a separate bowl with the remaining 1/2 cup flour and add to the batter. Drop from a teaspoon on greased cookie sheets and bake for 35 minutes. Bake 1 sheet at a time; remaining batter can stand either in mixing bowl or on baking sheets without losing its quality. When done, cover with cheesecloth and drizzle with whiskey or brandy. Remoisten every few days.
Makes 9 to 10 dozen.

Lizzie
1/2 cup butter, at room temperature
1 box (16 ounces) light brown sugar
4 large eggs
3 1/2 cups all purpose flour
3 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 to 3/4 cup whiskey
3/4 pound walnuts chopped
3/4 pound pecans chopped
1 box (15 ounces) golden raisins
1 1/4 cups dark raisins
8 ounces each candied red and green cherries, chopped

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees; grease or use baking spray on several cookie sheets.
2. In a large bowl, with an electric mixer at medium speed, beat the butter until smooth and creamy. Beat in the sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time until thoroughly mixed.
3. Into another large bowl sift together flour, baking soda and spices.
4. On low speed, beat the flour mixture into the butter mixture alternately with the whiskey beginning and ending with the flour mixture. Stir in the nuts, raisins and candied cherries.
5. Drop dough by rounded tablespoons 2 inches apart on prepared cookie sheets.
6. Bake at 350 degrees until set in the center, 10 t0 12 minutes. Transfer to wire racks to cool. Store in tightly covered containers.
***Note - I do not like the taste of nutmeg so I always leave that out and add some vanilla in place of it.

Ok we made Spritz also but I figure I got enough post it. The last recipe is the one we used.
We use a 1/c cup of Jack Daniels