On Mon 06 Apr 2009 02:59:15p, zxcvbob told us...

> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>> On Mon 06 Apr 2009 02:15:47p, zxcvbob told us...
>>
>>> Jean B. wrote:
>>>> Uh-oh. Those sound good. I'll save this and hope I don't succumb.
>>>>
>>> They were much better than I expected. I thought the cookies were
>>> going to taste more like chocolate with almond extract (not as good a
>>> combination as it sounds). I followed the recipe exactly -- which is
>>> not my custom -- although I did slip a little vanilla into the
>>> frosting :-)
>>>
>>> Don't try to cut the marshmallows with scissors. Just don't.
>>>
>>> Bob
>>>
>>
>> Scissors work pretty well if you oil the blades.
>
>
> I didn't think to try that. With clean scissors, it just makes a sticky
> mess, and a knife worked so much better.
>
> Bob
>

Yes, I imagine clean scissors would be difficult. The only reason I know
about oiling the blades is that my mother used to make some kind of candy
that required cutting a regular marshmallow into quarters. It was quick
and easy.

--
Wayne Boatwright

"One man's meat is another man's poison"
- Oswald Dykes, English writer, 1709.