Anna's Pressed Butter Cookies

Anna’s Cookies

Anna Choma was the Ukrainian woman who my parents (Malcolm and Marry Jarrell) sponsored to come to the US in 1949. She and her husband, Anton were in the concentration camps in Germany or Russia. They had two children when they came, Weldy (Valdimir) born in 1947 and Helena in 1948. After they came to the farm, Stevie(Stephan) arrived in 1953. Anton died in 1959. Anna remarried Amir Karshiv in 1960, and they all moved to Mont Clare, PA. I was very sad about the move.

I’m not sure how these came to be called Anna’s cookies. As far as I know Anna could not read or write in English, so I’m not sure who wrote the recipe down. However, at some time Anna must have made these cookies a lot and my mother wrote down the recipe so they became Anna’s cookies. They are simple pressed cookies.

1 ½ cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 eggs
3 ½ cups flour
pinch of banking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla
½ teaspoon almond flavoring

Press onto cold cookie sheet. Decorate with decorating sugar.
Bake at 475 degrees until they begin to turn light brown.