On Thursday, December 28, 2017 at 7:47:50 PM UTC-5, S Viemeister wrote:
> On 12/28/2017 4:55 PM, lenona wrote:
> > I made pfeffernusse cookies for Christmas and while I admit the batter amounts may have been a tiny amount more than 1 inch across (1 inch was the recommendation), the recipe indicated, I think, that I should have gotten more than 100 cookies. It was just over 30. Each finished cookie melted, of course, and was thus 2 inches in diameter.
> >
> > I swear, this estimate discrepancy happens a LOT in that book with cookies - and maybe others as well. Does anyone know more about this? Thanks.
> >
> That sounds like the recipe in the 1975 version of Joy.
> The recipe in the most recent edition is a bit different. There is also
> a version in the Joy of Cooking Christmas Cookies book, which gives
> weights (in ounces), as well as volume measurements - it suggests making
> "scant 3/4 inch balls", for a finished cookie measuring 1 inch.
>
> If your local library doesn't have it, I could type it out for you.


Very kind of you, but no thanks. (I already spotted it online.)

I checked again and it actually said the final result should be 180 - yes, 180 - one-inch balls. Since the UNCOOKED cookies are supposed to be one inch across to begin with, that's impossible - they'd just melt and spread. Even if I had made the batter scoops only half an inch across and they had turned into one-inch cookies, I still doubt I'd have been able to make 180 cookies.


Lenona.