On Sat, 22 May 2004, Eric Jorgensen wrote:

> On Sat, 22 May 2004 18:07:21 -0500
> Carol Lee Smith > wrote:

> > I am looking for recipes for stoneware cookie molds.

> > A few hints would also help since I have never used a cookie mold.

> > Are cookies individually baked in these stone ware molds, or are the
> > molds used to shape the cookies before they are baked on a sheet?

> The molds are used to shape the cookies before they are baked.

Thanks for that information.

Will any roll cookie dough work for this purpose?

> > If individually baked, it must take a very long time to get a few
> > dozen.

> It sure does. All in all you'll be happier leaving the stoneware
> hanging on the wall and using one of those plastic things. Sure, it
> kills the martha stewart aspect of the thing, but martha doesn't live
> here.

So I figured.

> On the other hand, hanging useless artifacts on the wall is what i
> always thought martha was about. That and marketing. Lots of marketing.
> And lying to the SEC, that too.

Does Harken ring any bells?

On Sun, 23 May 2004 05:44:49 -0500
Carol Lee Smith > wrote:

> On Sat, 22 May 2004, Eric Jorgensen wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 22 May 2004 18:07:21 -0500
> > Carol Lee Smith > wrote:
>
> > > I am looking for recipes for stoneware cookie molds.
>
> > > A few hints would also help since I have never used a cookie mold.
> > >
>
> > > Are cookies individually baked in these stone ware molds, or are
> > > the molds used to shape the cookies before they are baked on a
> > > sheet?
>
> > The molds are used to shape the cookies before they are baked.
>
> Thanks for that information.
>
> Will any roll cookie dough work for this purpose?


I think that the one and only time i did this we used a cookie dough
that was harder and more buttery than your average roll cookie dough,
probably with the intention that it would not rise in the oven and
distort the impression from the mold.

Or it could have been an anachronistic recipe that came with the
mold, I don't remember precisely. I remember very well that the necks of
nearly all the swan cookies broke.


> > On the other hand, hanging useless artifacts on the wall is what i
> > always thought martha was about. That and marketing. Lots of
> > marketing. And lying to the SEC, that too.
>
> Does Harken ring any bells?

No, but I'm at the bottom of hour six of a nine hour graveyard shift,
so they weren't likely to ring either.