![]() ![]() The cookies became family favorites, "my Christmas gifts when we didn’t have any money."Īt the holidays she’d make 100 dozen, thereby fulfilling the constitutional obligations of several households all by herself. The quantities were huge, the recipes lacked instructions and the ingredient lists called for such things as powdered eggs, but Young and her husband did the math and made the ingredient conversions. "I think they just gave me a bunch of papers with a bajillion cookies on them," she recalls. Hahaione did not have its own kitchen 40 years ago, so meals were brought in from another school, but when Young asked for recipes, one of the cafeteria workers came through. "I would sit around all day long eating cookies if I had them," she says. Young is a self-described cookie monster. Well, Dave, here is your holiday miracle. "It would be a miracle if someone can come up with that or a similar recipe," Nagata wrote. Nagata learned to love them at Moanalua Elementary, Alameida-Sasahara at Waialua High and Intermediate, both in the ’70s. I am convinced those brownies fulfill two requests that I’ve had in my files for a while, although both Dave Nagata and Bernice Alameida-Sasahara called them Peanut Butter Chews. Her cookies are all familiar, but with a twist: oatmeal cookies with ground raisins that provide a special moistness and flavor a light, delicate shortbread called Grandmother Cookies and brownies made with peanut butter that turn out wonderfully chewy. Young, recalling the many requests I’ve received from readers for baked goods from their school days, sent in several handwritten sheets of recipes, collected in the 1970s when her children attended, and she was a volunteer at, Hahaione Elementary School. If you’re leaning toward the latter, Kathie Young is your Christmas angel. ![]() It is up to you whether these cookies derive from beloved family traditions or reflect something new each year. "We the People, in Order to form a more perfect Union, declare that within sight of the holidays all Households must deliver unto all many cookies. It is required by law, I believe in the Constitution. You, or someone related to you by blood or marriage, had better start baking. ![]()
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