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OT Some days!...Anise cookies
On 15 Dec 2005 08:20:43 -0800, "Maria O" wrote:
I remember that stuff - it was Sen-Sen and came in wierd flavors like violet. http://thecandybaron.com/detail.html?2177 http://www.candy7.com/sen_sen.html That last place not only has cherry mash, goo goo clusters, and white chocolate kit kats, it's also got coffee crisps and violet crumbles. For the licorice lovers amongst us, the first place has old fashioned licorice pipes. I used to get those at the really good drug store that used to be downtown. They are the best! I think I'm likely to get fatter. NightMist -- "To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains." -Mary Pettibone Poole |
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OT Some days!...Lebkuchen
Hope you remembered to get the "Ellison" ones!
Roberta in D, just did a lebkuchen run yesterday " Ellison" schrieb im Newsbeitrag et... Howdy! You started it, Roberta! VBG There's a German grocery store/outlet in Colleyville/Southlake, northwest of DFW airport. All this talk of cookies and baking and eating compelled me to head up there this beautiful, sunny day to "stock up." g The Nürnberger lebkuchen (see, I remember what you told me) was there along w/ a few other types; we must sample them all. A few chocolates insisted on hopping into the bags, along w/ the spätzle, some sweet mustard, saurkraut and bratwurst. And lebkuchen. Cruised right by the 2 quilt shops on the way to/from; this was a Lebkuchen mission and that's what came home with me. g Mission accomplished! ;-D Cheers! Ragmop/Sandy --sometimes priorities have to be adjusted, esp. for lebkuchen "Roberta Zollner" wrote in message ... Thanks for the recipe! Yes, there ought to be 2 dots (umlaut) over the "a" in plätzchen. I need to get a few cookies made and might try these for a change. But I'll wait to hear how the lemon flavoring worked out! I prefer lemon to anise any day! Roberta in D "KJ" schrieb im Newsbeitrag newsK4of.404368$084.67736@attbi_s22... Thanks Tina! This is a German recipe my mother-in-law taught me before I was married. At least I "think" it's German. There are some here who might be able to correct me due to the spelling. I'm not standing in the kitchen any more today, so I'll write the recipe here now: __________________________________________________ __ Anisplatzchen....(the double dots over the second "A"...is that an umlat?) 3 eggs room temperature (Agnes always warned me about that!) 1 C. plus 2 T. sugar 1 3/4 C flour 1/2 t. baking powder } sift these three together 1/2 t. salt Beat eggs in electric mixer at medium speed until fluffy. Then add the sugar very gradually while beating constantly. Continue for 20 minutes more. (Yes you read that right....20 minutes!) Reduce speed of mixer and add flour mixture. Beat another 3 minutes, add anise. Drop by heaping teaspoonsful onto a well greased and floured cookie sheet(s), swirling to form a perfectly round cookie. Let stand for at least 8 hours to dry (overnight). Bake at 325 degrees F for about 10 minutes or until a creamy golden color (not brown) on the bottom. Store in air tight tins. __________________________________________________ ____________________________ These cookies get a dried "cap" on the top that stays a bit hard while the rest of it rises and has a somewhat chewy inside. Don't make them big, about the size of a silver dollar is about right. It's a bit of a fussy recipe, so I only make them once a year and really hate it when I screw them up!!!! Dear departed MIL must be busy playing bridge with her fellow angels....she was a good cook and certainly hasn't been keeping a watchful eye on my escapades in the kitchen!!!! It's funny how there are those who like anise cookies, and those who run screaming from them!!! Seems to be no middle ground. When I was a kid, there was a neighbor who brought us anise cookies at Christmas that were as hard as a rock and they looked like little pillows with pictures on them. She would never give out the recipe and it went to the great beyond with her. In later years, I figured out they must have been "Springerle" cookies that are rolled out with a decorative rolling pin and also left out over night before baking. I bought the rolling pin and tried them a couple times, but DH preferred his mother's recipe so I didn't bother with making them anymore. I'm sure I still have the rolling pin somewhere! Let me know if you have any questions...I'd love to hear if and when you try making them! KJ "Tina" wrote in message oups.com... KJ, when the holidays are over, and you've had a chance to catch your breath - would you share your recipe for Anise Cookies with me? Anise is my absolute favorite! Hugs, Tina, hoping tomorrow is a better day! |
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OT Some days!
Must be the Ice storm.
I had the oatmeal cookies on the cookie sheet (not baked) and saw the raisins sitting there in the cup. I picked the cookies up put them back in the bowl and mixed in the raisins. Whew, that was close! bonnie, in Middletown, VA (the temp is now 40.9 F.) On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 21:48:54 -0500, "Alice M. Bonnell" wrote: Maybe it's the ice storm...I made cookie press cookies today and the dough seemed a little soft. After they baked, none of the cute Xmas shapes were recognizable! Just blobs! Turns out, I somehow doubled the amount of shortening in the mixture! Tomorrow I'll try again, as my son says they are his favorites!"Oh yes, I also burned my finger too. KJ" wrote in message news:nW3of.629814$_o.329520@attbi_s71... It just doesn't pay to work in the kitchen. I stirred up my usual batch of Chocolate Crackles today and after chilling them, I thought they seemed rather soft when rolling in the powdered sugar before baking. Yup, they ran all over the pan and hardly rose at all. Baked the rest of the batter in a pan like brownies, but it still isn't very good. Threw out the old baking powder, used smaller eggs and am now awaiting to see how the next batch acts. Also made Grandma's anise cookies. Sort of. Except I put in lemon extract instead of anise...they were sitting together on the shelf!!!!! Crap! DH only gets this cookie once a year......so tried to hide the lemon with anise....opened a new bottle...but not a newly purchased bottle.....smelled like straight rubbing alcohol!!!! Since these cookie sit out overnight before baking, I won't know until tomorrow just how bad they are!!! Our family Christmas is at our house this Sunday. We have graduation events on Friday and Saturday.....my time is getting short and my baking talents are disappearing!!! Calgon take me away!!!! KJ |
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OT Some days!
I do that with vanilla a lot! Get everything put in the pan and there sits
the vanilla bottle! There have been times I dribbled it all over the top and stirred it in the best I could. Today's anise cookie score is: one pan perfect! the other went just slightly past the creamy brown on the bottom. They might be a little crispier..but not bad. So over all: I'd give it an A-. Ok, back to the cleaning! Oops, also need a grocery store run! I'm so disorganized with getting things done for company. We have a graduation event this afternoon, graduation tomorrow morning and the family is coming for Christmas on Sunday. I hope no one wants a meal at home before then!!! KJ "Bonnie Patterson" wrote in message ... Must be the Ice storm. I had the oatmeal cookies on the cookie sheet (not baked) and saw the raisins sitting there in the cup. I picked the cookies up put them back in the bowl and mixed in the raisins. Whew, that was close! bonnie, in Middletown, VA (the temp is now 40.9 F.) On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 21:48:54 -0500, "Alice M. Bonnell" wrote: Maybe it's the ice storm...I made cookie press cookies today and the dough seemed a little soft. After they baked, none of the cute Xmas shapes were recognizable! Just blobs! Turns out, I somehow doubled the amount of shortening in the mixture! Tomorrow I'll try again, as my son says they are his favorites!"Oh yes, I also burned my finger too. KJ" wrote in message news:nW3of.629814$_o.329520@attbi_s71... It just doesn't pay to work in the kitchen. I stirred up my usual batch of Chocolate Crackles today and after chilling them, I thought they seemed rather soft when rolling in the powdered sugar before baking. Yup, they ran all over the pan and hardly rose at all. Baked the rest of the batter in a pan like brownies, but it still isn't very good. Threw out the old baking powder, used smaller eggs and am now awaiting to see how the next batch acts. Also made Grandma's anise cookies. Sort of. Except I put in lemon extract instead of anise...they were sitting together on the shelf!!!!! Crap! DH only gets this cookie once a year......so tried to hide the lemon with anise....opened a new bottle...but not a newly purchased bottle.....smelled like straight rubbing alcohol!!!! Since these cookie sit out overnight before baking, I won't know until tomorrow just how bad they are!!! Our family Christmas is at our house this Sunday. We have graduation events on Friday and Saturday.....my time is getting short and my baking talents are disappearing!!! Calgon take me away!!!! KJ |
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OT Some days!
I made oatmeal cookies today, too and I think it was the snow that made me
feel like doing it. Didn't have raisins but I'd bought a huge ( what possessed me? ) bag of sweetened cranberries at Costco this week and used those. I used the Old Fashioned type of oatmeal. Is that what they call it?...I'm too lazy to hunt up the box. Anyway...they are delish . The small ice cream scoop works great for these...recipe makes 48 cookies.... Mary " Must be the Ice storm. I had the oatmeal cookies on the cookie sheet (not baked) and saw the raisins sitting there in the cup. I picked the cookies up put them back in the bowl and mixed in the raisins. Whew, that was close! bonnie, in Middletown, VA (the temp is now 40.9 F.) On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 21:48:54 -0500, "Alice M. Bonnell" wrote: Maybe it's the ice storm...I made cookie press cookies today and the dough seemed a little soft. After they baked, none of the cute Xmas shapes were recognizable! Just blobs! Turns out, I somehow doubled the amount of shortening in the mixture! Tomorrow I'll try again, as my son says they are his favorites!"Oh yes, I also burned my finger too. KJ" wrote in message news:nW3of.629814$_o.329520@attbi_s71... It just doesn't pay to work in the kitchen. I stirred up my usual batch of Chocolate Crackles today and after chilling them, I thought they seemed rather soft when rolling in the powdered sugar before baking. Yup, they ran all over the pan and hardly rose at all. Baked the rest of the batter in a pan like brownies, but it still isn't very good. Threw out the old baking powder, used smaller eggs and am now awaiting to see how the next batch acts. Also made Grandma's anise cookies. Sort of. Except I put in lemon extract instead of anise...they were sitting together on the shelf!!!!! Crap! DH only gets this cookie once a year......so tried to hide the lemon with anise....opened a new bottle...but not a newly purchased bottle.....smelled like straight rubbing alcohol!!!! Since these cookie sit out overnight before baking, I won't know until tomorrow just how bad they are!!! Our family Christmas is at our house this Sunday. We have graduation events on Friday and Saturday.....my time is getting short and my baking talents are disappearing!!! Calgon take me away!!!! KJ |
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OT Some days!...Lebkuchen
Howdy!
Yes. I learned well, instructed by an expert. g Thanks! yummmmmmm Ragmop/Sandy "Roberta Zollner" wrote in message ... Hope you remembered to get the "Ellison" ones! Roberta in D, just did a lebkuchen run yesterday " Ellison" schrieb im Newsbeitrag et... Howdy! You started it, Roberta! VBG There's a German grocery store/outlet in Colleyville/Southlake, northwest of DFW airport. All this talk of cookies and baking and eating compelled me to head up there this beautiful, sunny day to "stock up." g The Nürnberger lebkuchen (see, I remember what you told me) was there along w/ a few other types; we must sample them all. A few chocolates insisted on hopping into the bags, along w/ the spätzle, some sweet mustard, saurkraut and bratwurst. And lebkuchen. Cruised right by the 2 quilt shops on the way to/from; this was a Lebkuchen mission and that's what came home with me. g Mission accomplished! ;-D Cheers! Ragmop/Sandy --sometimes priorities have to be adjusted, esp. for lebkuchen "Roberta Zollner" wrote in message ... Thanks for the recipe! Yes, there ought to be 2 dots (umlaut) over the "a" in plätzchen. I need to get a few cookies made and might try these for a change. But I'll wait to hear how the lemon flavoring worked out! I prefer lemon to anise any day! Roberta in D |
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OT Some days!
I always use my small scoop when making cookies. And if you need your
cookies a uniform size - cook them in your muffin tins. I made some peanut butter cookies - used a small scoop and baked them in the tiny muffin tins. Soon as they came out of the oven I pushed a Dark Chocolate Kiss in the center of each. DS says they are his new favorite. But when I make Chocolate Chips I use the big scoop. No one likes a teensy little old Chocolate Chip cookie. -- http://community.webshots.com/user/snigdibbly SNIGDIBBLY ~e~ " / \ http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/snigdibbly. http://www.ebaystores.com/snigdibbly...ox&refid=store "MB" wrote in message ... I made oatmeal cookies today, too and I think it was the snow that made me feel like doing it. Didn't have raisins but I'd bought a huge ( what possessed me? ) bag of sweetened cranberries at Costco this week and used those. I used the Old Fashioned type of oatmeal. Is that what they call it?...I'm too lazy to hunt up the box. Anyway...they are delish . The small ice cream scoop works great for these...recipe makes 48 cookies.... Mary " Must be the Ice storm. I had the oatmeal cookies on the cookie sheet (not baked) and saw the raisins sitting there in the cup. I picked the cookies up put them back in the bowl and mixed in the raisins. Whew, that was close! bonnie, in Middletown, VA (the temp is now 40.9 F.) On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 21:48:54 -0500, "Alice M. Bonnell" wrote: Maybe it's the ice storm...I made cookie press cookies today and the dough seemed a little soft. After they baked, none of the cute Xmas shapes were recognizable! Just blobs! Turns out, I somehow doubled the amount of shortening in the mixture! Tomorrow I'll try again, as my son says they are his favorites!"Oh yes, I also burned my finger too. KJ" wrote in message news:nW3of.629814$_o.329520@attbi_s71... It just doesn't pay to work in the kitchen. I stirred up my usual batch of Chocolate Crackles today and after chilling them, I thought they seemed rather soft when rolling in the powdered sugar before baking. Yup, they ran all over the pan and hardly rose at all. Baked the rest of the batter in a pan like brownies, but it still isn't very good. Threw out the old baking powder, used smaller eggs and am now awaiting to see how the next batch acts. Also made Grandma's anise cookies. Sort of. Except I put in lemon extract instead of anise...they were sitting together on the shelf!!!!! Crap! DH only gets this cookie once a year......so tried to hide the lemon with anise....opened a new bottle...but not a newly purchased bottle.....smelled like straight rubbing alcohol!!!! Since these cookie sit out overnight before baking, I won't know until tomorrow just how bad they are!!! Our family Christmas is at our house this Sunday. We have graduation events on Friday and Saturday.....my time is getting short and my baking talents are disappearing!!! Calgon take me away!!!! KJ |
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OT Some days!
I had great success with cookies last night! Yay! Put together a double batch of simple sugar cookie dough, divided it into thirds, and made chocolate mint checkerboards, strawberry pinwheels, and tiger biscuits. Tiger biscuits are just ribbon cookies. Flavored half the dough with cafe sport flavoring, which makes that half dark brown. Flavored the other half with a drop of butter flavoring oil, a couple drops of pecan flavoring oil, and a whiff of brandy, and then colored it a golden orangey. Press the top of the stack a little and pat the sides after you have it layered, and the cookies come out looking tiger stripey when you slice them. NightMist On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 11:31:35 -0500, Bonnie Patterson wrote: Must be the Ice storm. I had the oatmeal cookies on the cookie sheet (not baked) and saw the raisins sitting there in the cup. I picked the cookies up put them back in the bowl and mixed in the raisins. Whew, that was close! bonnie, in Middletown, VA (the temp is now 40.9 F.) On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 21:48:54 -0500, "Alice M. Bonnell" wrote: Maybe it's the ice storm...I made cookie press cookies today and the dough seemed a little soft. After they baked, none of the cute Xmas shapes were recognizable! Just blobs! Turns out, I somehow doubled the amount of shortening in the mixture! Tomorrow I'll try again, as my son says they are his favorites!"Oh yes, I also burned my finger too. KJ" wrote in message news:nW3of.629814$_o.329520@attbi_s71... It just doesn't pay to work in the kitchen. I stirred up my usual batch of Chocolate Crackles today and after chilling them, I thought they seemed rather soft when rolling in the powdered sugar before baking. Yup, they ran all over the pan and hardly rose at all. Baked the rest of the batter in a pan like brownies, but it still isn't very good. Threw out the old baking powder, used smaller eggs and am now awaiting to see how the next batch acts. Also made Grandma's anise cookies. Sort of. Except I put in lemon extract instead of anise...they were sitting together on the shelf!!!!! Crap! DH only gets this cookie once a year......so tried to hide the lemon with anise....opened a new bottle...but not a newly purchased bottle.....smelled like straight rubbing alcohol!!!! Since these cookie sit out overnight before baking, I won't know until tomorrow just how bad they are!!! Our family Christmas is at our house this Sunday. We have graduation events on Friday and Saturday.....my time is getting short and my baking talents are disappearing!!! Calgon take me away!!!! KJ -- "To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains." -Mary Pettibone Poole |
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OT Some days!
Whew, I am glad the rctq curse seems to have lifted...I'm going to
venture into the kitchen this weekend to make 3 & 1/2 dozen (mini) mince pies and some cookies, and you all were making me a bit scared (and hungry!). Lynn |
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OT Some days!
My four stollen loaves look beautiful, and DH even ate half of one
before it cooled! Nancycog in MD |
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