The Signature Cookie!

My maternal grandmother taught me to bake and make cakes and cookies. She would let me mix the batter before nap time at her house and then when I woke up there would be warm cookies in my play oven and juice or milk in my play refrigerator. I felt very grown up! 

As a wee little girl, we visited my great grandmother once a year. She was in her 90s, but her hands were always working, snipping beans, or crocheting something. She wore her waist length hair in a bun. At night she would let us kids help her comb her long silver strands. I thought they were so beautiful. But what everyone remembers about her the most was her signature cookie: the Ginger Snap! If you went to visit Grandma Werty, she was going to offer a plate of ginger snaps and some milk. To this day I think of her whenever I see a box of those tangy cookies in the grocery store.  

They served a purpose. Now, 50 years after her death, we still remember her fondly and associate her name with a sweet treat.  

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