May Day Special Cookie Treats for Entertaining

NEW YORK - April 15, 2013 - PRLog -- MAY DAY TREATS

         Whether  your  May Day is an hours-long revel or a momentary nod to spring awakening, it's worth remembering that this is one of west's oldest holidays.  Celtic in origin, it's still marked by children's maypole dances in Europe and  the wearing of flower necklaces in Hawaii, where May Day is Lei Day.

         Grown-ups traditionally saluted May Day with sips of a German or Belgian white wine infused with the fragrant flowering herb, woodruff.   The May wine of yore was actually toxic;  Germany no longer  permits woodruff in its preparation.  In any case, most party givers make their own  may wines or may bowls, starting with wine, perhaps sparkling,  and adding spring strawberries and, sometimes, mint leaves.  

         May wine is the perfect accompaniment  for kebab cookies, sweet or  savory, according to Kelly Cooper, author of newly-published Cookies for Grown-ups (Red Rock Press).  Each cookie in this book is paired with a wine or another adult beverage.  

         Ms. Cooper's  savory or cocktail cookies are rooted  in a tradition, possibly older than  May Day, where bakers filled crackers or used them to sandwich whatever seasonal was left at hand---no distinguishing back then between  sweet and savory in either "fast, " take-with-you food or sit-down banquets.  

         Her savory kebab celebrates the spring vegetable, asparagus, while the sweet kebab highlights strawberries and  Hawaiian  pineapple and coconut.    Ms. Cooper, who grew up in a fruit-rich California Valley, worked with Honolulu cookbook editor and museum consultant Clarke Reilly in readying Cookies for Grown-ups for publication.  

         Both of Kelly Cooper's kebab cookies require skewers (each recipe yields two-dozen cookie-kebab skewers) but neither requires grilling.  So you can enjoy these May Day treats even if it rains.

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