I was taught to spoon flour if I wasn't going to sift it... in home ec class in 1997! So I've always done it and I can't make most cookies (snicker doodles never get me trouble, but oatmeal and chocolate chop are awful!) My cookes get really thin and stick to the parchment.... I tried to make carrot cake cookies for the last sit and sew I attended and they did that... they were a disaster... (not to mentoon the same day I dropped my beloved vintage food processor that my grandmother gave me when I was 16 on the floor and broke it to smithereens.... had to spend 50 bucks and buy the same one on Ebay because I loved it so much)... I was so upset with two disasters in the same day I went to the grocery store and brought a pound cake for my contribution that night! Anyway, I was talking to the ladies at the sit and sew and one of them said that I probably didn't use enough flour... so from now on I will scoop instead of spoon!

Thanks for the follow-up. This is a plant that in my garden was eventually ripped out since it can be quite thuggish and difficult to get rid of.

I'm glad the group could help. You can always post a reply inside your original post for updates and more info, also. It's easiest to keep things organized in one place, especially when we are garden webs most active forum... (I think...)

If that date, 1880 - 1890 is true, it would be an extremely early lamp. In the 1870s, Sir Joseph Swann and Thomas Edison working independently, made the first incandescent electric bulb that could last for more than a few hours. At first, only a few persons used incandescent lamps. As electric power became more widespread, usage grew to significant numbers by 1885. Electric arc lighting predates incandescent but was not generally used in homes. Sir Humphrey Davy made the first arc lamp in 1809. Based on these data, it is my opinion that electric lamps made for incandescent bulbs in homes did not exist before 1870.