Mike Milo’s Journal

My amazing wife just finished baking a double batch of my favorite cookies in the world: Spice cookies!

My mom made these every year for my brother and I at Christmas time and I have to say since she’s passed on I miss eating them… Never fear! My wife is here!

These are a very old recipe from my great grandmother’s recipe box and I thought there might be someone out there who might like to try this classic and seasonal recipe.

Momma Milo’s Spice Cookies

Mix thoroughly together:

• 3/4 cup soft shortening
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/4 cup of molassses
• 2 cups of sifted flour

Sift it all together and stir in:

• 2 tsp baking soda
• 1/45 tsp salt
• 1 tsp cinnamon
  
• 3/4 tsp cloves
• 3/4 tsp ginger

Mix thoroughly and form into balls the size of small walnuts. Place about an inch and a half apart on a greased baking sheet and bake 10-12 min. at 375 degrees Fahrenheit.

Take out of the oven and let sit for 3 minutes.

Sprinkle with confectioner’s sugar while warm!

Enjoy!

P.S.

While you certainly don’t have to do it all in this order I recommend cooking them before eating them! Oh yeah and I dare you not to enjoy them!

To all my friends and family, I wish you a wonderful Thanksgiving Day. You can read more about this monumental day here.

Here’s a picture Flavio had taken by his mom for Father’s Day… His father is saying,“Mama Mia! Takea the picature already!”

I wish you all a very Merry Christmas! This year the Milowerx blog has grown exponentially and we get hits now from all over the world, especially the US (of course) , Canada, Brazil and Russia. I thank all of you who read this blog and as always feel free to post a note or a comment to say hello or tell me me my views are stupid! 2006 promises to be a great year for us as we are currenlty under way with a number of independent projects including a comic book with Zaptoons.com which I am very excited about! Stay tuned for more…
Feliz Navidad!

I just wanted to wish you all a very Happy Labor day. If you’re not from the US then Labor Day is a way for us to get a holiday. It is a celebration of work and having work by … well not working!
Most familys have barbeques or some sort of get- together and drink copious amounts of wet stuff, eat franks and beans, corn, hamburgers, chips and salsa and play horsehoes.

You can read a full history of Labor Day here.

Myself and my family will be doing much the same this year exept that we will play Bocce’ ball and have a picnic on my “back 40″, (my backyard for the uninitiated). Anyway, have a safe and happy day and may God bless you and keep you whole!