Last night under the direction of my wife, Lynnea and I made cookies just before her bedtime.  I use the term “cookies” loosely because these cookies were little more than pie-crust…

First, you take a pie crust that you have rolled out, and smear it with butter.  Apparently you want the butter to have the consistency of paste (not sure it matters), so you might need to zap it for 5 seconds in the microwave and moosh it up with a spoon first.  Also you don't want to smear the butter on too thickly.

Then, you sprinkle the buttered pie crust with a sugar/cinnamon mixture until it is coated.

Then you cut the crust into whatever shaped cookies you want.  This is a great opportunity for your kid to have fun with cookie cutters.  Cut up any remnants, and put the crust pieces on a cookie tray into an oven preheated to 350 degrees.

Pie crust will cook quickly, and your cookies should be done in 5 or 6 minutes.  Give them a couple minutes to cool down once you take them out.

Really it's just butter-and-cinnamon pie-crust pieces, but to my kid they're cookies.  Pat says when her mom used to make pies there was always some small amount of pie crust left over, and that was fashioned into treats like these rather than letting it go to waste.

I suppose if you wanted to, you could call them “crusties” but I think nobody would want to eat them under such a name.

Anyway they tasted pretty good, and that's coming from someone who doesn't really like pie crust.  Afterward I tucked Lynnea in and read her a couple chapters of “The Summer of the Sea Serpent”.

for the dried oozing which is oft found near a new body piercing.  Yecchh.  Yeah… maybe “crusties” isn't such a great name for these treats.