Lee Michaels wrote:
"David F. Eisan" wrote in message
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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
If I tried something like that at my house I would be SHOT!
David, I am dissapointed with you. Using some fancy, cordless drill to mix
cookies. Aren't you the guy who rehabilitates big iron? Surely you could
have converted some big WW I machine to do this task! G
A spokeshave with a little elbow grease would have sufficed, methinks ...
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