I only baked half the batch of cookies last week. Took out the rest
of it out of the freezer yesterday and tried again. Same batch,
different method. This recipe doesn't spread like chocolate chip
cookies usually do and apparently I didn't flatten them enough the
last time. This time, I manhandled the dough. I squashed each scoop
with a spatula and then I picked it up and pinched it even thinner
with my fingers. At most, they were only about the thickness of a
chocolate chip. This time they weren't too poofy and stayed soft
enough for me, although they still didn't look like the picture. The
bottom was perfect, a medium brown, and the top slightly less brown.
Maybe the baking powder was spent by this time, but whatever it was
worked for me. I bought some margarine yesterday and found an
interesting 5 grain oatmeal mix in the bulk section that I want to try
in my next batch of oatmeal cookies. Raisins were amazingly expensive
at $3.59 a pound; but I got some anyway, so the next batch will have
raisins instead of chocolate chips in it. Maybe I'll buy some rum and
soak the raisins in that for a day or two before I use them. Hm.

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