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Fabric Exchange - Raw Materials

Dec 8th, 2007 by Kathy

My monthly American Sewing Guild meeting was on Thursday. We celebrated the holidays with a potluck brunch and the unveiling of projects made from our orphaned fabric exchange. I took a batch of my Mom’s Thumbprint Cookies filled with raspberry jam. Yum.

In July, each member brought 2 yards of orphaned fabric from the stash. We randomly traded sealed paper bags. Mine contained this nice heavyweight navy blue satin and synthetic organza. Hmmm, what would you make? I’ll share my creation tomorrow!

This recipe makes a nice small batch of cookies (approximately 20). I usually double the recipe when doing my official holiday baking.

Mary Mack’s Thumbprint Cookies

1/2 cup butter
1/3 cup sugar
2 eggs, separated
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup finely chopped pecans
1 jar of fruit jam

Cream together butter and sugar. Separate eggs. Beat egg yolks and add to creamed butter and sugar. Reserve egg whites for later use. Mix in vanilla, flour, and salt. Chill dough for several hours.

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Form dough into 1 inch balls. Roll in slightly beaten egg white and then finely chopped pecans. Place on a cookie sheet covered with parchment paper. Bake 5 minutes. Make thumbprints and fill with jam. Bake another 8 minutes.

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9 Responses to “Fabric Exchange - Raw Materials”

on 08 Dec 2007 at 4:49 pm1jonipossin

My mom always made thumbprint cookies and now the tradition is mine. I loooove them!!

I anxiously await the unveiling of your creation with the blue fabrics.
joni
on 08 Dec 2007 at 5:10 pm2adrienne

I can’t wait to see what you made!!!
on 08 Dec 2007 at 6:57 pm3Marcelle

Thanks for sharing the recipe! By the way, that is a neat-o bit of fabric or paper underneath your blue fabrics. Tablecloth?

Can’t wait to see what you whipped up…
on 09 Dec 2007 at 4:13 am4nicolette

The fabrics will do great in your scarf pattern, or in some fabric post cards, with some wintery hills covered with snow added, and/or the moon. I like your cookies, wonderful recipe. I guess the 375 degrees are Fahrenheit? My oven goes to 220 (Celcius).
on 09 Dec 2007 at 7:23 am5Momma Pajama

Your mom’s name is Mary Mack? That must have inspired a lot of song!! Kinda like Paula married to Paul…
Paula
on 09 Dec 2007 at 7:26 am6Andrea

The blue fabric would make a lovely bag with perhaps some silvery machine emdroidery on it. Love the layout of your site, very clear to follow. Found you today. Can I please be nosey and ask how you created your link from your blog/site to item description then shopping cart. I think your photos and text make your patterns very appealing. I tried E-junkie but could not get a decent description section set up.
Thanks
Andrea
on 09 Dec 2007 at 10:00 am7Administrator

Andrea: I write all the code for my website using a development product called Dreamweaver. I explored using different e-commerce services but I always found them limiting in some way and wanted more control over the design.

As far as the blog, I use a Wordpress plugin called Sidebar Widgets. It allows me to place html in those side bar sections making the link easy to do.
on 09 Dec 2007 at 2:25 pm8Pink Chalk Studio » Blog Archive » Fabric Exchange - Completed Project

[…] If you’ve sewn with satin you know how I felt when I opened up my bag and saw these two cuts of fabric. I noodled over ideas for a few days and woke up one morning with my Eureka moment. […]
on 11 Dec 2007 at 7:08 am9It’s just peanuts! :: Backorgie :: December :: 2007

[…] Am Samstagvormittag hat mein Mann mich zum Backen zwangsverpflichtet. Wie? Er hat die Eierpackung mit den 10 Eiern mal etwas unsanft auf dem Boden geparkt. Ich konnte 4 Eiweiß und 8 Eigelb retten. Die Eiweiß habe ich zu Kokosmakronen verarbeitet. 4 Eigelbe zu Husarenkrapfen (im Englischen auch finger print cookies genannt) - die sind echt total lecker und gehen ganz einfach. 2 Eigelb sollen noch zu Vanillekipferl und 2 zu einer weiteren Ausstecherle-Runde verarbeitet werden. Ich weiß nur nicht so genau, wie lange ich die Eigelb eigentlich ohne Probleme im Kühlschrank aufbewahren kann. […]