"Cindy Hamilton" > wrote in message
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> On Wednesday, December 23, 2015 at 12:57:10 PM UTC-5, Cheri wrote:
>> "Cindy Hamilton" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> On Tuesday, December 22, 2015 at 9:19:24 PM UTC-5, graham wrote:
>> > So far I've made for gifts:
>> > 8 dozen almond tarts
>> > 3 dozen choc chip cookies
>> > 3 dozen crispy cornflake cookies
>> > 1.5 dozen canelés de Bordeaux
>> > 4 dozen financiers
>> > 3 dozen pink peppercorn madeleines
>> > and there's a batch of the NY Times choc chip dough in the fridge, sans
>> > white sugar.
>> >
>> > Last night I made a batch of Bouchon Bakery oatmeal cookies (for my
>> > d-i-l) substituting dried blueberries for raisins (which she hates). I
>> > cut back the sugar significantly and the cinnamon by a third. The
>> > cookies look fine but they are still repulsively sweet and that masks
>> > the flavour of the blueberries. I would have thought that such an
>> > esteemed patisserie would have been more conservative in its use of
>> > sugar, particularly as the head patissier, at that time, was French.
>> >
>> > Tomorrow I will bake the NYT cookies and also make a batch of chocolate
>> > crunch (a British school lunch treat) for each of my sons. When she
>> > retired, the head cook at my school gave my mother the recipe along
>> > with
>> > a pan that she used and which I now have.
>> >
>> > Many years ago I used to make mince pies but people will nibble on one
>> > to remind themselves that they don't particularly like them, so I don't
>> > bother now. I was going to make some macadamia cookies and Parisian
>> > macarons but I think that I've contributed more than enough calories to
>> > the season.
>> > Graham
>>
>> No holiday baking here; it's just the two of us and we're both
>> losing weight.
>>
>> I'd kill for one of my husband's chocolate chip cookies. Just one,
>> so it's not worth making a whole batch.
>>
>> Cindy Hamilton
>>
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>>
>> I've been doing a lot of "to give away" baking, and dh always snags one
>> or
>> two.
>
> Nobody to give them to.

.... raises hand ...



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