Why the title?

What in the world is a "dishpan cookie?" You can google the term and find recipes, but I have my own. I'll include it in a later post. "Dishpan cookies" is the name my cousin gave the peanut butter cookies my Grandma made. She would come into the house, find a jar of peanut butter in the cabinet, and bake cookies until she filled an old fashioned dishpan with them. Hence, the name.
I remember the times these dishpan cookies showed up. Usually, times were bad and stressful. My Mom was a single parent, trying to take care of three boys. We moved all over the United States when I was a kid. My stepfather moved us to these places and often ran off and left us for a year or more. Grandma usually found a way to move nearby; sometimes running a hotel and cafe in Tacoma, Washington, sometimes running a service station in Oklahoma City. When things were bad around the house, in would come Grandma--I recognized the sewing machine sound of her '59 Ford--and start baking those cookies. With the house full of that aroma, things got better in a hurry! At least, you began to think you could survive. You could make it, as long as there was still a dishpan cookie in the jar.
That's what I hope these posts are. Some of them get read on the air in my local radio station. I'm working on syndicating them. Let me know what you think. And have a cookie today. Remember the manna that God fed the children of Israel in the wilderness? "Like wafers made with honey." The people called it manna, which means "what is it?" Maybe tasted like a Graham cracker. I'll bet it tasted like dishpan cookies.