To my way of thinking, most folks love cookies. In the case of holiday cookies, for many it’s not just for their splendid taste and texture. Fondness is often linked to memories of warm kitchens and pleasant family times. Baking cookies is old-fashioned holiday fun.

Of course, those cookie treasures can be sealed up in zipper-style plastic bags for enjoying at home or given as gifts (I like to keep one or two bags in the freezer for emergency cookie raids). There are a wide variety of cookie tins available in marketplace that are welcome containers for gift packaging.

Cookies come in all shapes, sizes and flavors. Some are crisp, while others are chewy. I’ve chosen recipes for three crisp beauties that I love to bake and share.

Tillie’s Brown Sugar Shortbread Buttons

My old friend Till

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