Life is A Tin of Butter Cookies
It all started when I was a child, I used to see my mum does her sewing of curtains on her sewing machine after her teaching job. One particular item that caught my attention amid all her sewing things was a tin where she stored her bobbins and threads. It was a butter cookies tin of a particular brand. She had many of those. I always wondered how the cookies would taste like because I couldn’t recall tasting it. During one of our Christmas gathering, a relative of mine brought this tin of butter cookies when I was 12 years old. I tried it, and that was it. I was hooked on it for life. I tried various other brand of butter cookies but it just didn’t sink in well with me. The butter content was not enough for me. I tasted the flour more than the creamery butter. Some of it were too sweet. I was researching on why this particular brand became my obsession. Apparently like how all other brands too claim, they say they use the freshest ingredient and so on. I just couldn’...
