A collection of Gingerbread House Images in the days to come? No. This is the only one. I've never been around for the actual breaking off a chunk of the house and eating it part....I will assume the cookies are quite hard and stale by then. The only one I ever made was not made of anything edible. And I have zero idea where it is. I recall some guy trying to break off a chunk of the roof....while the house was on display at the Library....I admit to wanting to see that happened when he bit into something made of wood...but I stopped him and held out my hand, palm up...and he gave the piece back to me... I turned it over and he finally noticed it wasn't a cookie. He wondered why I had even "bothered" to make a house you couldn't eat. I wondered why I had stopped him from breaking a tooth or two.
1. That's sort of the theme for my 79th year on Earth. Zero idea of where anything I made in the past....is. Possibly in the Mysterious Attic- up the staircase I am not supposed to climb in my old age.... In case I stumble and fall on the way down........well, you get the idea.
2. Football yesterday was strange, cold and not very interesting.....the Sunday Pizza was very good. Excellent crust. I think British Soccer is more interesting....right now. Green grass.
3. I found another self made bookmark (considering making more)...and did finally finish Mr Perfect on Paper.
4. I found a card with one of my favorite quotes. "The floggings will continue until morale improves" on the other side of the card "southwest bacon whopper" @ Burger King. I am laughing because...I actually haven't changed all that much over the decades........weird...I will always be weird.
5. I also found a handmade bookmark...in excellent condition. I wonder where the other ones went????? I recall recently bumping into the assorted supplies for this bookmark project....in a drawer. I also recently sat in the desk chair by my sewing machine and looked down to see the perfectly stacked (daughter) supplies there..for all sorts of wonderful projects.....some involving very sharp edged tools. Some never used or used for only one very very nice project........
6. I had a list of books....went on the library site to try and order them...none in any library collection here in Maine... so I am guessing the list was from Amazon and none of the books are "Library Type Books" Which has now gotten me very very interested in that list. Really terrible books??????
7. Found a site with directions for the Basic Shortbread Cookie Dough from Gourmet Magazine December 1993. I made the full recipe and the six varieties of cookie... packed them in a pink bakery box and carried the box on the plane to the Florida house my friends owned. (it was Winter).... I arrived and the McDonald's men who (never noticed me before)...noticed me... and I handed over the box...they circled and ate cookies. They were very very good cookies... I guess....I was never offered one. The card here on my desk has the recipe for the cookie dough....one pound of butter makes two varieties... that was it.... none of the variety instructions.
8. Perhaps one of you has a copy of that December 1993 Gourmet Magazine..????? I'd really like to bake the cookies one more time...and eat some of them before giving the remainder away as a gift.
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Leslie Pendleton has found a way to satisfy her children’s craving for chocolate chip cookies and create a fancy cookie for dinner guests at the same time.
She has developed a butter cookie dough that is the base for 50 kinds of cookies and bars. Pendleton, a former Gourmet magazine recipe developer and food stylist, will talk about her technique Saturday from 3 to 5 p.m. at Everything for the Kitchen, 36 Main St., East Hartford. She will sign books and offer samples of cookies such as Shattered Chocolate Balls, Raspberry Hazelnut Diamonds and Spritz Wreaths.
The master recipe and cookies are from Pendleton’s new book, “One Dough — Fifty Cookies: Baking Favorite and Festive Cookies in a Snap” (William Morrow, $13). The recipes are a step above taking ordinary dough and mixing in a few flavorings.
Pendleton’s master recipe makes a batch of dough large enough to make two different cookie recipes. Use half a batch to whip up granola bars for the kids, and the other half to make sophisticated sambuca coffees,”cookies with a chocolate-covered espresso bean at their centers and spiced with anise seed, espresso powder and sambuca liqueur.
One Dough, Fifty Cookies: Baking Favorite And Festive Cookies In A Snap Hardcover – September 21, 1998
by Leslie Glover Pendleton (Author)
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars (35)
Need a last-minute batch of cookies for the holidays? Is the cookie jar running low on favorites? From simple, traditional chocolate chips to elegant Apricot Nut Biscotti, you can have classic and original cookies quickly without starting from scratch every time. Each of the fifty cookies in this book originates from one basic butter dough but tastes and looks completely different.
One Dough, Fifty Cookies features an innovative and imaginative array of cookies including Cappuccino Wafers, Chocolate-Dipped Coconut Sticks, Malted Milk Buttons, Cinnamon Chocolate Moons, and Oatmeal Raisin Ginger Coolnes.
The above book is on Amazon for $3.49
How have I existed this many decades without YOU BEVERLY????????
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