Making holiday cookies can bring joy and happiness – unless it doesn’t. If you bake only a few times a year or think you’re missing “the baking gene,” consult these alphabetically ordered tips. Then check out The Post’s Holiday Cookie Generator (www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/food/holiday-cookies) and our nine essential cookies collection, and choose recipes with confidence. BUTTER Good […]
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Beverly McIver Berry
AUBURN — Beverly McIver Berry, 86, of Livermore, passed away peacefully Tuesday, June 19, at Hospice House of Androscoggin in Auburn, surrounded by her loving family. She was born Oct. 4, 1931, in Jay, the daughter of Forrest L. McIver and Dorothy (Bryant) McIver. Beverly attended school in Topsham and Livermore Falls and was a 1951 […]
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Bake News: Cookie Monster explains the Joy of Cookies to Washington Post
? Like another classic figure in history whose name begins with C: He came, he saw, he conquered. Cookie Monster, at The Washington Post. Then again, there were no signs of resistance. The beloved blue Sesame Street character has a new book, you see, called “The Joy of Cookies: Cookie Monster’s Guide to Life” (Sesame […]
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Pauline Phinney
SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Pauline “Polly” Phinney, 91, passed away on Thursday, Aug. 3, in San Diego, California. She was born on Feb. 26, 1926, the daughter of Ralph and Orrissa Hall of East Dixfield. Pauline met her husband, Everett Phinney, at a Grange Hall dance when he came home on leave to visit his […]
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Fresh-baked cookies — right from the dashboard
LISBON FALLS — Fry an egg on the sidewalk? Steve Yenco doesn’t know about that, but he does have a plate of delicious proof that it was hot enough during the recent heat wave to bake cookies in his car. He proved it on Thursday, the second day in a row during which temperatures rose […]
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Working: Cookies as edible art
AUBURN — Kristi Touchette can spend hours hand-painting one cookie. A movie star’s portrait. A delicate teapot. A postcard from Maine, complete with lighthouses. It’s edible art that sometimes requires an unexpected nudge. She sent her Texas friend a Thor cookie this summer, a 5-inch vanilla bean with Chris Hemsworth’s piercing blue God of Thunder eyes […]
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Holy Savior Catholic School to present cookies to businesses
RUMFORD — Students at Holy Savior Catholic School will visit several local businesses and town departments to present homemade cookies Tuesday, Jan. 27, as part of Maine Catholic Schools Week. Principal Barbara Pelletier said that many years ago, Holy Savior Catholic School would have students’ parents make cookies, and the students would hand them out […]
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LePage takes the cake in Lewiston bakery’s cookie poll
LEWISTON — In a wholly unscientific but decidedly sweet sampling of voter preference, Republican Gov. Paul LePage was leading in a dough-slide Tuesday afternoon. LePage’s likeness, or at least his photo baked on top of a sugar cookie, was the favorite for patrons of Grant’s Bakery on Sabattus Street in the bakery’s Election Day cookie […]
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Police help Lewiston kindergartners catch fugitive gingerbread men
LEWISTON — Kindergartners at Montello Elementary were sworn in as junior investigators Tuesday. The 38 children joined U.S. Deputy Marshal Ryan Guay and Lewiston police Detective William Brochu in a task force whose mission was to track and capture five gingerbread men. The goal was for students to act out the classic “Gingerbread Man” story, […]