Joanna’s Birthday Tea Cookies

Recently I was looking for an old recipe for a dish my mother would often make for us. I called her to ask whether she still had it somewhere, and she diligently dug up her folders of recipes that her own mother had given her when she emigrated to Ireland in the late ’60s. This archive is a valuable resource in itself, but she wasn’t able to quickly locate the recipe we were looking for. An hour or so later, she sent me a picture of a handwritten recipe for the Irish cookies that her friend