Eccentric Flower talk:200912/Bakery

Iain:

Regarding the seven-layer cookies: perhaps it would work better as an upside-down cookie, with the graham as the top layer. Either that, or maybe more butter.

-- 08:30, 21 December 2009 (GMT)

Joy:

My mom used to make what you are calling the 7 layer cookies all the time when I was a kid. Love them. The sickly sweet of them is the point! I can't remember what she called them - some kind of cookie bar.

guppy made pecan tassies for Thanksgiving. (She and I bicker about the proper pronunciation of pecan, and she called them tassies, not tossies.) No corn syrup, she used maple syrup and lemon juice (and something else?) instead. I kind of didn't like them, but I don't really like pecan pie either.

She is now experimenting with posole (pozole?) bites for our New Year's Day party, and is using the mini muffin tin for her artfully pressed ... hmmm, not sure what kind of wrapper dough she is using, but thin and crispy and baked before filling with the pork etc.

-- 18:12, 21 December 2009 (GMT)

Joy:

Oh! Did you notice that the graham crackers had shrunk?! Yet another irritating case of shrinking the food without the package - I swear I thought they had forgotten to put one of the three packages of crackers in the box, they had narrowed the crackers so substantially.

-- 18:13, 21 December 2009 (GMT)

Columbina:

Down in the Low Country they say A's funny sometimes, like they were once British or something. I'm sure that's where I got the weird way of saying "tassies," but that's how I was taught to say it. No doubt they are more newfangled in inland Georgia.

I don't use maple syrup much in applications that call for cooking it. I did try making a maple pecan pie once and I did not like the maple/pecan combination. Maple would probably go better with walnuts, to my taste. Molasses, on the other hand, is a fine substitution for some of the corn syrup in a pecan pie - assuming you like the taste of molasses. Just be careful or you'll end up with a Schadenfreude Pie.

-- 18:22, 21 December 2009 (GMT)

Columbina:

If Guppy and Nonelvis got into a kitchen together they would never leave, but you and I would eat real well!

-- 18:23, 21 December 2009 (GMT)

Columbina:

Photo of some of the spoils: http://www.flickr.com/photos/eccentricflower/4203894720/

-- 18:24, 21 December 2009 (GMT)

Joy:

Too true Col! They would never leave, and eventually we'd be too big to get through the front door to leave, as well!

-- 18:45, 21 December 2009 (GMT)

Mmancuso:

Those recipes all look so good. Reading them is more fun than eating. Too bad I don't usually go in for making confections. I suppose I could try the Heartbreaking Sugar Cookies. Maybe if I liked bourbon more I'd make the first recipe. Maybe I'll just go eat a chocolate bar, now.

-- 03:30, 22 December 2009 (GMT)

Mmancuso:

The old IBM selectric typewriter that was in my father's officy-home-den thing had an italics element on it. I think they were called elements; the golf-ball shaped thing with all the characters and stuff. I still remember exactly that sound, and exactly what the type looked like. Maybe that's similar, eh?

-- 03:38, 22 December 2009 (GMT)

Columbina:

No, no, I'd have said italics if I meant italics. I mean like this. That's not the typewriter we had, but that's exactly what its typed output looked like.

-- 04:54, 22 December 2009 (GMT)

Jette:

The seven-layer cookies are also known as Hello Dollies; I made them one night for a movie-watching party where we showed "Dick." Except we didn't have the secret ingredient in our jar of walnuts, if you know what I mean. The recipe I had was slightly different but we had no crumby problems.

I am fighting the urge to make some kind of holiday sweet treat. Traditionally, it should be fudge, but I'm not good at fudge and am pondering forgotten cookies (aka meringues) instead, especially if I can get Chip to help beat the egg whites.

-- 20:56, 22 December 2009 (GMT)

Nonelvis:

Something to do with the sugar cookies next year.

-- 02:55, 23 December 2009 (GMT)