On Sat, 21 Dec 2013 21:57:54 -0600, "Polly Esther"
> wrote:

> Well. We have tornado warnings until noon tomorrow.

That totally sucks so late in the year!

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> I tried a recipe for lemon/almond cookies. Dry, boring.

You didn't provide any hints about the recipe, so I'm wondering if it
was anything like this one (which looks tasty to me)
http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2...d-cookies.html

> Won't do that
> one again - but when you're feeding wolves, it only hurts my pride. Next -
> I really would like to bake chocolate and also lemon meringue pies. Tricky
> with the humidity at nearly 80%. I see recipes for cooking meringue before
> topping a pie. Anybody every tried that? Polly

Sorry, I live in San Francisco (80% humidity doesn't seem to affect
things the way it would in Florida) so my meringue turns out right
most of the time - it did weep once (not badly) but I have no idea
why.

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