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OT needing a Cookie Monster
Wonder what I did wrong? I just sliced and prepared for travel a pretty pan
of bar cookies. Rest assured, they taste wonderful. A simple, prize-winning recipe that I followed to the letter. I even blanched, dried, toasted and sliced the walnuts. Should have been purrfect. Not. They are mighty sticky gooey. Rather like serving someone a handful of pecan pie. I'm wondering if the recipe was just not a good choice with Mississippi's extreme humidity; maybe I should have left them in the oven a few more minutes? Did I beat them too much? The cookies will disappear like I'd fed starving wolves so it's not a disaster but I would like to do better next time. Or find another recipe. Your thoughts? Polly |
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Hi Polly, even SC's humidity sometimes messes up the best of recipes! The
humidity has been high the past week. Takes a long time for clothes to dry outside. Barbara in SC |
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I could easily be considered a cookie monster. Cake monster too. Any
chance you can post the recipe so we can try and figure it out. I know there are certain recipes that just don't like humidity. I haven't worried about them much since we moved to the desert. I do like to understand when baking fails though. Taria "Polly Esther" wrote in message ... Wonder what I did wrong? I just sliced and prepared for travel a pretty pan of bar cookies. Rest assured, they taste wonderful. A simple, prize-winning recipe that I followed to the letter. I even blanched, dried, toasted and sliced the walnuts. Should have been purrfect. Not. They are mighty sticky gooey. Rather like serving someone a handful of pecan pie. I'm wondering if the recipe was just not a good choice with Mississippi's extreme humidity; maybe I should have left them in the oven a few more minutes? Did I beat them too much? The cookies will disappear like I'd fed starving wolves so it's not a disaster but I would like to do better next time. Or find another recipe. Your thoughts? Polly |
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Let's see, toasted walnuts, sweet, sticky gooey, 'handful of pecan
pie' -- Polly, just what is the problem? Sunny drooling |
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On Sat, 15 May 2010 08:15:53 -0500, Polly Esther wrote:
Wonder what I did wrong? I just sliced and prepared for travel a pretty pan of bar cookies. Rest assured, they taste wonderful. A simple, prize-winning recipe that I followed to the letter. I even blanched, dried, toasted and sliced the walnuts. Should have been purrfect. Not. They are mighty sticky gooey. Rather like serving someone a handful of pecan pie. I'm wondering if the recipe was just not a good choice with Mississippi's extreme humidity; maybe I should have left them in the oven a few more minutes? Did I beat them too much? The cookies will disappear like I'd fed starving wolves so it's not a disaster but I would like to do better next time. Or find another recipe. Your thoughts? Polly Heavens! There are so many things that could do that! Could be you used bigger eggs than whoever wrote the recipe. Could be you used an all purpose flour that had more gluten. Could be your oven runs a couple of degrees cooler than theirs. Could be Yogi turned around three times and sighed under the table. I have had recipes I've done a hundred times come out wonky for no particular reason. You chalk it up to barometric pressure, humidity, and Baba Yaga, then try it again next week. I recently needed a break from sewing so I baked. I was going to just do cream puffs. Then I got "Oh! but that takes so many eggs!", and "Oh! but I love cream puffs and I am trying to lose weight!" from my family. So I took a snit, made some puff paste too, and put it all together into one of these: http://www.dessert.net.au/images/gat...e200708011.jpg It looks fancier than it is. In reality it is just a few cream puffs glued to the outside edge of a circle of puff paste with a little caramelized sugar, and the middle filled with the same cream you used to fill the cream puffs. I was standing by, ready to pace circles around my family, asperging them with melted butter, and shouting "By the power of Rachel Ray I compel you!" Fortunately that extreme step proved unnecessary. NightMist -- I'm raising a developmentally disabled child. What's your superpower? |
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I picked out this recipe to try because of its very few ingredients - only
biscuit mix, brown sugar, eggs and walnuts. That's all. Maybe a handful of KwikCrete would have done the trick. The recipe is from 'Best of Country Cookies' with 250 'best' tested cookie recipes. I am on my 4th copy of it this year; the first 3 have been carried away by cookie-loving friends. It's a beautiful collection even if this recipe is rather sticky. No problem. There's never been a wasted cookie around here. Polly "NightMist" wrote in message ... On Sat, 15 May 2010 08:15:53 -0500, Polly Esther wrote: Wonder what I did wrong? I just sliced and prepared for travel a pretty pan of bar cookies. Rest assured, they taste wonderful. A simple, prize-winning recipe that I followed to the letter. I even blanched, dried, toasted and sliced the walnuts. Should have been purrfect. Not. They are mighty sticky gooey. Rather like serving someone a handful of pecan pie. I'm wondering if the recipe was just not a good choice with Mississippi's extreme humidity; maybe I should have left them in the oven a few more minutes? Did I beat them too much? The cookies will disappear like I'd fed starving wolves so it's not a disaster but I would like to do better next time. Or find another recipe. Your thoughts? Polly Heavens! There are so many things that could do that! Could be you used bigger eggs than whoever wrote the recipe. Could be you used an all purpose flour that had more gluten. Could be your oven runs a couple of degrees cooler than theirs. Could be Yogi turned around three times and sighed under the table. I have had recipes I've done a hundred times come out wonky for no particular reason. You chalk it up to barometric pressure, humidity, and Baba Yaga, then try it again next week. I recently needed a break from sewing so I baked. I was going to just do cream puffs. Then I got "Oh! but that takes so many eggs!", and "Oh! but I love cream puffs and I am trying to lose weight!" from my family. So I took a snit, made some puff paste too, and put it all together into one of these: http://www.dessert.net.au/images/gat...e200708011.jpg It looks fancier than it is. In reality it is just a few cream puffs glued to the outside edge of a circle of puff paste with a little caramelized sugar, and the middle filled with the same cream you used to fill the cream puffs. I was standing by, ready to pace circles around my family, asperging them with melted butter, and shouting "By the power of Rachel Ray I compel you!" Fortunately that extreme step proved unnecessary. NightMist -- I'm raising a developmentally disabled child. What's your superpower? |
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Could the biscuit mix be dead or maybe not mixed up enough?
Taria "Polly Esther" wrote in message ... I picked out this recipe to try because of its very few ingredients - only biscuit mix, brown sugar, eggs and walnuts. That's all. Maybe a handful of KwikCrete would have done the trick. The recipe is from 'Best of Country Cookies' with 250 'best' tested cookie recipes. I am on my 4th copy of it this year; the first 3 have been carried away by cookie-loving friends. It's a beautiful collection even if this recipe is rather sticky. No problem. There's never been a wasted cookie around here. Polly "NightMist" wrote in message ... On Sat, 15 May 2010 08:15:53 -0500, Polly Esther wrote: Wonder what I did wrong? I just sliced and prepared for travel a pretty pan of bar cookies. Rest assured, they taste wonderful. A simple, prize-winning recipe that I followed to the letter. I even blanched, dried, toasted and sliced the walnuts. Should have been purrfect. Not. They are mighty sticky gooey. Rather like serving someone a handful of pecan pie. I'm wondering if the recipe was just not a good choice with Mississippi's extreme humidity; maybe I should have left them in the oven a few more minutes? Did I beat them too much? The cookies will disappear like I'd fed starving wolves so it's not a disaster but I would like to do better next time. Or find another recipe. Your thoughts? Polly Heavens! There are so many things that could do that! Could be you used bigger eggs than whoever wrote the recipe. Could be you used an all purpose flour that had more gluten. Could be your oven runs a couple of degrees cooler than theirs. Could be Yogi turned around three times and sighed under the table. I have had recipes I've done a hundred times come out wonky for no particular reason. You chalk it up to barometric pressure, humidity, and Baba Yaga, then try it again next week. I recently needed a break from sewing so I baked. I was going to just do cream puffs. Then I got "Oh! but that takes so many eggs!", and "Oh! but I love cream puffs and I am trying to lose weight!" from my family. So I took a snit, made some puff paste too, and put it all together into one of these: http://www.dessert.net.au/images/gat...e200708011.jpg It looks fancier than it is. In reality it is just a few cream puffs glued to the outside edge of a circle of puff paste with a little caramelized sugar, and the middle filled with the same cream you used to fill the cream puffs. I was standing by, ready to pace circles around my family, asperging them with melted butter, and shouting "By the power of Rachel Ray I compel you!" Fortunately that extreme step proved unnecessary. NightMist -- I'm raising a developmentally disabled child. What's your superpower? |
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Still trying to imagine blanching and slicing walnuts - almonds, yes;
walnuts, no.......must be a Southern thing? jennellh On May 15, 9:15*am, "Polly Esther" wrote: Wonder what I did wrong? *I just sliced and prepared for travel a pretty pan of bar cookies. *Rest assured, they taste wonderful. *A simple, prize-winning recipe that I followed to the letter. *I even blanched, dried, toasted and sliced the walnuts. *Should have been purrfect. * * Not. * * They are mighty sticky gooey. *Rather like serving someone a handful of pecan pie. * * I'm wondering if the recipe was just not a good choice with Mississippi's extreme humidity; maybe I should have left them in the oven a few more minutes? *Did I beat them too much? * * The cookies will disappear like I'd fed starving wolves so it's not a disaster but I would like to do better next time. *Or find another recipe. Your thoughts? *Polly |
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One of the reasons I always look askance at recipes that call for
preprepared mixes is because they are different brand to brand. In the line of biscuits, my mum uses Jiffy mix, and my Aunt J, her sister, uses Bisquick. They swap recipes using mix back and forth. The ones my mom send to Aunt J inevitably come out sloppy for her, the ones she sends to mom come out overly dry. Neither one of them has enough sense to just use a little more or less liquid or mix when they get a recipe from the other. If Polly's recipe just called for mix without specifying exactly what manner of mix, well then obviously the recipe is going to take a little experimenting with to work with what she uses. If it did specify, and she used just exactly that, well then we are back to barometric pressure, an electric oven versus a gas one, or Baba Yaga. NightMist thinking about a double batch of snickerdoodles because she is sick to death of ruching satin today. (It is prom season) On Sat, 15 May 2010 11:24:05 -0700, Taria wrote: Could the biscuit mix be dead or maybe not mixed up enough? Taria "Polly Esther" wrote in message ... I picked out this recipe to try because of its very few ingredients - only biscuit mix, brown sugar, eggs and walnuts. That's all. Maybe a handful of KwikCrete would have done the trick. The recipe is from 'Best of Country Cookies' with 250 'best' tested cookie recipes. I am on my 4th copy of it this year; the first 3 have been carried away by cookie-loving friends. It's a beautiful collection even if this recipe is rather sticky. No problem. There's never been a wasted cookie around here. Polly "NightMist" wrote in message ... On Sat, 15 May 2010 08:15:53 -0500, Polly Esther wrote: Wonder what I did wrong? I just sliced and prepared for travel a pretty pan of bar cookies. Rest assured, they taste wonderful. A simple, prize-winning recipe that I followed to the letter. I even blanched, dried, toasted and sliced the walnuts. Should have been purrfect. Not. They are mighty sticky gooey. Rather like serving someone a handful of pecan pie. I'm wondering if the recipe was just not a good choice with Mississippi's extreme humidity; maybe I should have left them in the oven a few more minutes? Did I beat them too much? The cookies will disappear like I'd fed starving wolves so it's not a disaster but I would like to do better next time. Or find another recipe. Your thoughts? Polly Heavens! There are so many things that could do that! Could be you used bigger eggs than whoever wrote the recipe. Could be you used an all purpose flour that had more gluten. Could be your oven runs a couple of degrees cooler than theirs. Could be Yogi turned around three times and sighed under the table. I have had recipes I've done a hundred times come out wonky for no particular reason. You chalk it up to barometric pressure, humidity, and Baba Yaga, then try it again next week. |
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"Polly Esther" wrote in message ... Wonder what I did wrong? I just sliced and prepared for travel a pretty pan of bar cookies. Rest assured, they taste wonderful. A simple, prize-winning recipe that I followed to the letter. I even blanched, dried, toasted and sliced the walnuts. Should have been purrfect. Not. They are mighty sticky gooey. Rather like serving someone a handful of pecan pie. I'm wondering if the recipe was just not a good choice with Mississippi's extreme humidity; maybe I should have left them in the oven a few more minutes? Did I beat them too much? The cookies will disappear like I'd fed starving wolves so it's not a disaster but I would like to do better next time. Or find another recipe. Your thoughts? Polly I made a whole batch of cookies one time and realized when they were in the oven that I had left out half the flour. They were drop cookies and they were pouring off the spoon. I figured they'd "set up" as they baked. They didn't. Cindy |
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