I’ve been looking for different ways to battle my depression, and so I’ve bought a couple baking books this year. Why baking books? Because it’s difficult to remain depressed when you’re making cookies.

Last purchase was Nancy Baggett’s All-American Cookie Book, which I’d been eying for the past year or so.

After the book came, I spent a couple evenings on the sofa, first looking through the book, and then marking the recipes I wanted to try. Since I needed a recipe that didn’t have nuts or too much chocolate (due to Grandmom’s diet limitations) I decided to try the Lemon Jumbles, since after chocolate, my next favorite flavor is lemon.

If you are going to make cookies (or anything else) with lemon, always use fresh lemon. Most good lemon recipes call for both lemon zest and lemon juice.
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