![]() Creamy risotto: Pearl couscous is the trick ingredient for creamy risotto.Hard-boiled eggs: Two easy ways to hard boil eggs to perfection.Left tightly covered, the cookies stay crisp for up to a week. Once the cookies are cool, place in tins, lined with parchment or waxed paper. Then, using a spatula, transfer the cookies to wire racks to cool. Transfer the baking sheets to wire racks and let the cookies cool on them for 1 minute. If there is room, place the cookie sheet in the fridge for a few minutes for the cookies to get nice and cold before they bake.īake the cookies until they are golden brown, 10 to 12 minutes. And my mother recalled sugar cookies served at Christmas because they were special, especially in those war years when precious sugar was saved for holiday baking.ĭecorate the cookies: If you are using colored sugars, brush the cookies with a little egg white before sprinkling on the colored sugars. ![]() And they take to substitutions easily, so when times were tight, you could swap in the margarine instead of the butter. They serve a lot of people, especially children. They have been simple to bake from the beginning of time. And they drew their identity from the ingredients or special tools needed to make them.īut unlike cake, cookies didn’t require high-level culinary experience or expensive ingredients. They have been shaped and formed by the people who made them. What I love about cookies is that they are ageless and timeless. When I researched my book American Cookie, I learned that just like cake baking in our country’s history, cookies have evolved through the centuries. It was a wonderful, messy sugar fest, and after it was over and done I took the sheet outside and shook it in the wind.
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