Though sometimes one achieves "hard" rather
than "crunchy." The best way to avoid that
problem is to make the food thin enough in
the first place.
Makes sense....
There are perceptions of texture that vary
in acceptance, even if by objective measure
the amount of pressure needed to break
something and the kinds of fragments it
makes might not differ by all that much.
We talk about crisp, crunchy, hard, tough,
and so on, with greater or lesser differences
among them (I listed those in order of
desirability to me). Bonnie's recently baked
cookies were hard and tough, so we analyzed
the changes to be made in the recipe - I
suggested butter instead of oil and rolling
the dough out thin; also a couple other things
upon which we decided to forget that recipe
and go with something tried and true, like
Elevator lady spice cookies
categories: historical, easy, cookies
yield: 1 large batch
3/4 c shortening
1 c sugar
1 egg, unbeaten
1/4 c molasses
2 c flour
2 ts baking soda
1/4 ts salt
1 ts cinnamon
3/4 ts powdered cloves
3/4 ts powdered ginger
Mix the first 4 ingredients. Then sift
together the remaining (dry) ingredients
and stir in. Mix well and form into
walnut-sized balls. Put them 2" apart on
a greased cookie sheet and bake at 375F
for 10 to 12 min. They'll puff up and and
then settle and crinkle on top, just like
spice cookies should.
Peg Bracken, I Hate to Cook Book via caleesblog.blogspot.com
Yeah. Ramona, California. As of last time I
checked, they still hadn't announced the
identity of the deceased, but the Tuesday TV
news offered the sort of contradiction that
the memorial service would be held Thursday
(that being yesterday, so I couldn't go).
So apparently only the closest, and in the know, people were able to go
the service....?
On proofreading this I read Roman, Catholic.
Sigh. Similar enough.......
Yeah, maybe. Actually, a lot of evangelicals
and a bunch of Mormons around there. Not a Jew
in sight, and the Cathies are all Hispanics.
And they still aren't enough... sigh... And her doctor doesn't have any thoughts on possible fixes, either...?
Nope. The main adaptation being that a couple
years ago Bonnie would say "I'm not deaf, I'm
hard of hearing," and now she says "I'm deaf."
And another sigh.... but at least she's accepting it, somewhat....
Sort of. As with many people I know, she's
good at making up stuff that she didn't catch
in the first place. Unfortunately, she's not
that great at filtering out what doesn't make
sense.
It tends to even out, but lumpily and
imperfectly, so some effort or at least
awareness on our part is needed to make
things more optimal, er, less imperfect.
Perhaps the awareness is somewhat worthwhile.... especially of how
things might affect one's self....
Maybe - I still don't make it an object of
obsession, more a back-of-the-mind awareness.
Speaking of some effort, it'll take me some
effort to figure this out at all.
Which, the actual seeing, or the being able to do anything about the
issues thereof....?
Both, to some degree.
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