"David F. Eisan" wrote in
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Hello everyone,

I was looking for some cookies today and could not find any in the
house.
How hard can it be to bake cookies? I like peanut butter cookies, I
thought I would give making them a try. Turns out, it is a lot more
work than I thought. If I had baked before, I might have been able to
deduce that the recipe was sized to make four thousand cookies and I
could have reduced it. I do remember watching my Mom make cookies when
I was a young boy, and only when it was too late did I realize I
should have mixed the butter and sugar first and not added the butter
last. I broke the wooden spoon trying to mix the butter with the
peanut butter, sugar and eggs. I got out Katarina's toy mixer, but it
has no torque and was starting to give off a funny smell. I was
running through my mind what power tools I had that could help with
this. My DeWALT 300 RPM mixer drill was out on loan and my mortar
mixing paddle would take too long to clean anyway. Probably for the
best, the mortar paddle was not stainless steel, and who wants yellow
paint in their cookies. I found my Makita cordless drill. I blew it
off with the compressor and wiped it down. The mixer paddle was easy
to chuck in the drill. I was able to keep the RPM low and after trying
unsuccessfully to mix in the butter by hand for 15 minutes, I had it
mixed in about three minutes. Since the mixture was quite thick, I
also used it to mix in the flour and other dry ingredients.

http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/pbmix.jpg

http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/pbbake.jpg

I filled the baking pan a number of times, and when all was said and
done, instead of trimming windows today, I spent 5 hours baking
cookies. It would have been slightly shorter if I had made sure I had
all the ingredients before I started and didn't have to run to Mom's
for "Magic Baking Powder".

I took a couple containers of cookies to my folks tonight for them and
my sisters' family. I will be taking bags of them to work for the next
little bit, so free cookies will be on the counter at Fed Tool for the
next several years.

Thanks for looking,

David.

Every Neighbourhood has one, in Mine I'm Him



I threatened several times to buy my mother a drill press to use as a
mixer. The way I see it, those kind of tools are designed to run for 15
minutes straight to mix marshmallows (you're sorely deprived if you
haven't had homemade) unlike the cheap ones you get everywhere anymore.

Got her a Kitchenade stand mixer a few years ago, and she's enjoyed it
ever since. No holes have been drilled yet, though. ;-)

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