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Gerund Whore
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My favorite is spritz. Cookie press with green dough and tree shapes (set has quite a few others, but they don't come out very well). Almond flavor.
So far I've made cutout butter cookies, Mexican wedding cakes (crescents rolled in powdered sugar), thin crispy oatmeal cookies, thick chewy chocolate chip cookies, gingerbread cutouts, and brown sugar cookies. Tomorrow or Sunday I'm making rugelach, a Jewish cookie that has a tender cream cheese dough and fuit and nuts rolled up in it. I'm making mine with dried cherries and cherry preserves and walnuts. They're my mom's favorite so I have to make some to send her. I'm about cookied out at this point, but eagleyez is very happy--and our house smells wonderful.
Wicked Eve asked me if I celebrate Hanukah and I told her not really, that for a Jew I am fairly Christmasy.![]()
I'm on my way!
At my house the cookies stay here.
It is nice to get something made for you, not just bought.![]()
The rugelach sounds good is it easy to make?
Actually, American Standard Measurements are all slightly out of whack with British Standards.A cup is 1/2 a pint (do you still have those ?), 8 ounces volume.
2 pints in a quart, a quart just a little less than a liter (33.8 vs 32 ounces)
Aren't units fun![]()
True for water and other stuff with similar density.A
Oh... btw, a pound, by weight, is about 2 cups volume.
Oh... btw, a pound, by weight, is about 2 cups volume.
As EO points out, that pound=two cups volume makes assumptions about density. Sulfuric Acid is close to twice as dense as water; Iodine, almost five times as dense.True for water and other stuff with similar density.
It is nice that the density of water is one in both systems (gm/cm3, oz/oz)
A cup is 1/2 a pint (do you still have those ?), 8 ounces volume.
2 pints in a quart, a quart just a little less than a liter (33.8 vs 32 ounces)
Aren't units fun![]()
This is the way I made Christmas cake last year....you should try this method!
* 2 cups flour
* 1 stick butter
* 1 cup of water
* 1 tsp baking soda
* 1 cup of sugar
* 1 tsp salt
* 1 cup of brown sugar
* Lemon juice
* 4 large eggs
* Nuts
* 2 bottle wine
* 2 cups of dried fruit
Sample the wine to check quality. Take a large bowl, check the wine again. To be sure it is of the highest quality, pour one level cup and drink. Repeat. Turn on the electric mixer. Beat one cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl. Add one teaspoon of sugar. Beat again. At this point it's best to make sure the wine is still OK. Try another cup... Just in case. Turn off the mixerer thingy. Break 2 eggs and add to the bowl and chuck in the cup of dried fruit.
Pick the fruit up off floor. Mix on the turner.. If the fried druit gets stuck in the beaterers just pry it loose with a drewscriver. Sample the wine to check for tonsisticity. Next, sift two cups of salt. Or something. Check the wine. Now shift the lemon juice and strain your nuts. Add one table. Add a spoon of sugar, or some fink. Whatever you can find. Greash the oven. Turn the cake tin 360 degrees and try not to fall over. Don't forget to beat off the turner. Finally, throw the bowl through the window. Finish the wine and wipe counter with the cat.
Go to the store and buy cake.