I decided to make spritz cookies the other day. I made my yummy butter cookie dough and got out my trusty spritz cookie maker. Or as it turned out, my not-so-trusty spritz cookie maker. I bought this cookie maker a few years ago at Kmart. It’s just your average 21st Century spritz cookie maker. It’s plastic, and that’s the problem. I got four tree cookies pressed out when I felt resistance. I squeezed the trigger and SNAP! The trigger just completely broke off in my hand. What in the world!? There was nothing I could do at that point, it was completely broken. I just had to toss the dumb thing in the trash. However, I had an entire mixing bowl of cookie dough. So, I called my friend, Wendy, to see if she had a spritz cookie maker. She said she did, but she said it was kinda different. Kinda different, how, I asked? She said it had been her mom’s. Wow! Your mom’s, I asked? That means it must be at least 40 years old, because I knew her mom had passed away awhile ago. I told her I could handle different, I just needed to get my cookies done. I went to get the cookie press and this is what I got:
Amazing! That is one heavy duty cookie press! No wonder this thing had been around for 40 or 50 years. It is made of metal, tin I think. The barrel holds twice as much as mine and you crank the cookies out. I had fun using this one. Trust me, there is NO way this thing would ever break. The Christmas trees were also a little prettier than mine.
I was also amused by a camel cookie shape:
I almost wanted to make another batch of dough just to see what the camels would look like. I was kinda hoping for a wiseman cookie to go with it. But, the only other “living” creature cookie available was a dog. A dog? Very odd:
Maybe I’m missing something. Is this Rudolph? Or is it a Christmas dog? Or were dogs just popular in the 60’s? Don’t know, but it kinda cracked me up.
Anyhow, I am now searching on eBay for an antique cookie press. No more plastic junk for me. They just don’t make stuff like they used to!
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