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[Carmie]

I have been Christmas baking since early this morning.  

A close friend of my neighbor who knows us well, stopped to talk to my husband in our driveway.

He invited her in to say hello to me.  She said my cookies looked delicious and I offered her some.  She said she was lactose intolerant and couldn't have any dairy.

I make a Cooke with almond paste that has no dairy and said she was welcome to try.  She tasted a cookie and said it was delicious and asked for the recipe.

I gave it to her and she noticed egg whites in the ingredients.  Then she got upset and said my cookies had dairy.  

To make a long story short, she thought and still thinks eggs are dairy.  OMG!

Anyway, she'll get over it.  Some people are uneducated.  The cookies are gluten free, so they're for me. 

[spumoni99]

I guess since they sell eggs in the dairy case but come on.  Tell her to google it.

[Bookplate]

Those darn egg-laying cows are taking over the supermarkets.

[cindyNC]

You'd think w/the cows helping out the hens that eggs would be much less expensive. 

[JoyFilled Warrior]

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@Carmie wrote:

I have been Christmas baking since early this morning.  

A close friend of my neighbor who knows us well, stopped to talk to my husband in our driveway.

He invited her in to say hello to me.  She said my cookies looked delicious and I offered her some.  She said she was lactose intolerant and couldn't have any dairy.

I make a Cooke with almond paste that has no dairy and said she was welcome to try.  She tasted a cookie and said it was delicious and asked for the recipe.

I gave it to her and she noticed egg whites in the ingredients.  Then she got upset and said my cookies had dairy.  

To make a long story short, she thought and still thinks eggs are dairy.  OMG!

Anyway, she'll get over it.  Some people are uneducated.  The cookies are gluten free, so they're for me. 

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ouch.. ouch.. ouch..  @Carmie  

Sounds like a mistake I might make when there's too much "life" going on, & my head isnt fully engaged on perhaps culinary details??. 

     (You are so generous to share your talented, hard working wares!  ) 

       I can imagine the wonderfully emitting, baking scent coming from your home/kitchen!!   

BTW, my Mom used to be the Queen of Baking a incredible amount of very varied, mounds & mounds of Christmas cookies, starting as far early as Halloween sometimes & big-freezer-chest,  freezing them  (if there were any/many left!)  

Years later, turns out, my brothers & sister were ALSO  plentifully helping themselves to these frozen cookies too!  And here, I thought it was just me being the only "Christmas Cookie Piggy."  Nope!!   

[Kachina624]

@Carmie.  Maybe because there are chickens in the barn with the cows?  Appalling ignorance.

[San Antonio Gal]

I was expecting something more by the title of this thread.

[Desertdi]

Architectural challenge.....the chillers are all on the same wall

[Carmie]

@JoyFilled Warrior   When I was growing up, our house was Christmas headquarters.  We had hundreds of visitors for about two weeks at Christmas time every weekend.

Threre were 11 kids in my father's family and when his mother passed, he bought the " family house."  All of his Siblings and their large brood of kids visited.

My mother and mostly my older sister baked dozens of cookies.  We probably had two dozen different varieties.  Our house had a summer kitchen that wasn't heated and the cookies and drinks were stored there to keep them cold.

I used to go out there and help myself to cookies on the sly, and while I was out there, I would grab a Franks black cherry wishnick soda as well.  We only were allowed soft drinks when we had company.

They were fun days with sweet memories.

I bake for Christmas, but over the years, I don't bake as much.  I can't eat most baked goods and my husband has a huge sweet tooth. Yesterday, he ate a whole nut roll by himself.  It could  have fed about 10 people.

I used to bake early and freeze, but by Christmas, not much was left, so I wait until a few days before.

There's nothing like the sweet memories of Christmas of when you were a child.  I am glad you have happy memories too.

[drizzellla]

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@San Antonio Gal wrote:

I was expecting something more by the title of this thread.

You don't think that "egg laying cows" that Bookplate mentioned aren't a weird encounter?