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Kentucky Jam Cake Cookies. Make your favorite thumbprint/roll cookie recipe. I used one from the Joy of Cooking. Use light brown sugar instead of white; add a teaspoon of cinnamon and half a teaspoon of allspice. Chill the dough, form it into balls. Rolling the edges in finely-chopped walnuts would be nice and extra-authentic, but I didn’t have any. Press your thumb (or other digit) into the dough. Fill the indentations with good blackberry jam. Bake per recipe instructions. Pro tip: if you disregard warnings about flour measuring methodology, your cookies will come out slightly crumbly — as mine did. They were delicious despite that, and also despite the fact that I made them exactly one week after the Kentucky Derby.

Kentucky Jam Cake Cookies.

  • Make your favorite thumbprint/roll cookie recipe. I used one from the Joy of Cooking. Use light brown sugar instead of white; add a teaspoon of cinnamon and half a teaspoon of allspice. Chill the dough, form it into balls.
  • Rolling the edges in finely-chopped walnuts would be nice and extra-authentic, but I didn’t have any.
  • Press your thumb (or other digit) into the dough. Fill the indentations with good blackberry jam.
  • Bake per recipe instructions.
  • Pro tip: if you disregard warnings about flour measuring methodology, your cookies will come out slightly crumbly — as mine did. They were delicious despite that, and also despite the fact that I made them exactly one week after the Kentucky Derby.

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A perfect day in New York

  • Black coffee, two cups
  • Absolute Bagel, fresh, untoasted, eaten in Central Park with a friend
  • A Levain chocolate-chip walnut cookie, fresh, epic, eaten on the bench outside the shop with a friendly stranger — note to Levain, if two ladies sit on your bench in the sun whilst licking chocolate from their fingers and smiling at passersby, the passersby will stop, turn back and buy your cookies
  • A Jonagold apple from a farmer’s market
  • A pot of strong, hot Chinese tea; spicy chicken and broccoli; a small bowl of steamed white rice at Grand Sichuan — especially tasty after walking 110+ blocks and spending several hours wandering through the New Year dragon dances
  • Whiskey ginger
  • Whiskey ginger
  • Some sort of yuppie-ish salt & pepper potato crisps from the 5th Ave. deli in Brooklyn, broken into during the 2 a.m. cab ride

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