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fawnridge (Ricky)
4 years ago
Many years ago, fortune cookies evolved to an educational level. Here's a phrase I never expected to see:
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Comments (5)Lots of thanks from us, Jim! We gave away and traded a lot, and came home with more than we had planned. So....no different from every other year. We had a lot of fun - it was great to see old friends and meet a few new ones. Barb & Don...See Morei thought of you when i opened this fortune cookie. yes, you
Comments (16)The best, and most accurate, fortune cookie message I ever opened had nothing to do with decorating. It was: You will step on the soil of many countries This was just a few months before I quit my job and spent 6 months traveling through Europe & to Japan. I still have that little slip in the wallet I reserve for foreign travel. It brings me a little jolt of joy to re-discover it before every trip....See MoreCute/Creative Ways to Package Cookie-Swap Cookies?
Comments (23)We're about to host our 2010 Eve's Garden Texas Annual Christmas Cookie Swap. My thought was to create a hostess gift of ideas in a flyer to show attendees how they could CREATIVELY Present their take home COOKIES as gifts. BHG and Martha Stewart offered some great ideas. I would love to share the flyer however I am not sure how to upload the document (or if I can) So visit our FAN PAGE on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/EvesGardenTexas to see the uploaded photos using collanders, sifters and more. Also please LIKE our page and share your Cookie Swap Photos of creative packaging with us. How FUN will that be? Have a safe and blessed Thanksgiving! Here is a link that might be useful: Eve's Garden Texas Fan Page...See MoreAs Seen on Food Fortunes -- Can you measure flour?
Comments (19)Butter isn't all that solid! You measure it the same way you would any other fat. You have to soften the butter to bake, anyway, so if it's in the fridge, set it out on the counter for awhile. Once it's malleable, just press it into your cup with a spoon until it's full to the brim with no air pockets, and level, then use a scraper to pop it out and into your mixing bowl. Or go with equivalencies: 1 lb. = 2 cups of butter or full fat margarine. In the U.S., 1 box = 1 pound = 2 cups = 4 sticks (Do check the label to make sure it's really a pound.) My stick of butter says 113.4 g on the wrapper. That's a half cup. Or cut off a small knob from a French butter brick (250g) for buttering your pan, and you'll have about a cup. Or just use the whole brick. :) Unlike flour, there's no variation with butter, so if you were using a cups recipe but had your scale, you could just weigh the butter. There are standard equivalencies for flour too, but when I use them to convert recipes they aren't accurate enough and I would have been better off doing it by eye. There's so much variation in flour anyway, depending on the fineness of the milling, protein content, etc., that I'd much rather use the same kind of flour as the recipe calls for as possible, and the same way of measuring, if I want it to be just like the recipe. If I'm just using the recipe as a guide, but want to make it my own way with a different kind of flour and/or sweetener, then I just do my own thing and try to keep the proportions fairly similar to get the best outcome, and it doesn't matter how I got there. As for other things, we have a lot of modifiers. Brown sugar is measured "packed". That is pressed and molded into the cup. Spinach leaves are measured packed as well, though you don't pack hard enough to squish. Raisins are just measured more or less to the line, as they fall, but people always put in more or less to their own tastes anyway. There are also times you might "pack loosely" or not at all. YES, a scale would be ever so much easier. Our tradition started from the days of expansion and settlement when every kitchen had a tin cup or scoop but it was highly unlikely they'd have a scale. A lot of the women (most home cooks were women) had very little education and cooked and baked more by feel than by measures of any kind. A "receipt" was a list of ingredients with no quantities nor directions. It was assumed that if you knew how to bake, you knew what to do with them. The apple pie recipe that my mother handed down to me says something about how to prepare the apples (overnight), but for the rest it's "use a standard crust" and "bake", because why would you be concerning yourself with a different method for making an apple pie if you didn't know how to make a pie?...See More
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