Christmas Cookies🌲Stay Close to My Heart - No. 316

Pecan crescents + a grandmother’s cheese date cookie

Dee’s Cheese Date Cookies are tossed in powdered sugar while still warm. Or you can leave them unsugared.

COOKIES GET PERSONAL this time of year.

My maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Emmaline Stephens Carr, was a strong and loving woman her fourteen grandchildren called ‘’Dee.’’ Widowed when my mother was 13, Dee didn't have a lot of time for cooking or ba…