Post-Reunion Wrap-up
Please share your thoughts as we begin to prepare for our 50th Reunion. Please take this short 2024 Attendees survey and give us your feedback. We want our next reunion to be even better!
One of the delights of our 45th Reunion were the gingersnaps that Molly Schubert Bernard baked for our Friday afternoon class activity, Tea & Tales. Molly kindly agreed to share the recipe with us. Enjoy!
Aunt Ann’s Gingersnaps
2 c sifted flour
½ tsp salt
1.5 tsp ground cloves
1 tsp ground ginger
1 tsp ground cinnamon
3 tsp baking soda cookies
¾ c shortening
1 c sugar
1 egg
¼ c molasses
granulated sugar, as needed for rolling
raisins (optional)
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Sift flour with salt, cloves, ginger, cinnamon, baking soda.
- Cream shortening and 1 cup sugar.
- Blend in egg and molasses.
- Stir in flour until well blended. (Opt.) Add raisins.
- Shape dough into balls the size of walnuts (or larger.) Roll in granulated sugar.
Place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Flatten with fingers, and sprinkle with more sugar. - Bake for 7-10 minutes. Let cool completely. Store in airtight containers.
Makes 24-30 cookies, depending on amount of dough per cookie.
Ilisha Helfman writes:
Oh wow, I would really love to see everyone and thank Cynde and Catie so much for working on this [reunion], but I am living in bubble now (I’m immunocompromised) with stage 4 pancreas cancer so won’t be able to
attend.
Remember the dinner we made for President Conway? I have no memory of what we cooked for her but there was such a buzz in the kitchen that the can of bacon drippings vibrated off its shelf above the stove and landed everywhere, not what we needed! She was so warm and unexpectedly comfortable with us though. I remember her hiking up her skirt to show us exercises we could do in the living room. I always thought that was remarkable.
I hope you all are well and have a wonderful reunion sharing stories and fond memories, old and new. I am active on Instagram and would love to be in touch there if anyone is so inclined, @ilishahelfman. Also I recently did a podcast on finding joy. It’s at Project Purple Podcast Episode261