Making cookies at Jane's turned out to be even way more fun than I expected.
I've made cookies here at the Chatette, but without a big oven and all the best tools it is more of a job.
Then, the wonderful ambiance of Chez Jolly and its inhabitants add even more to the "mix" (no pun intended)!
We'd talked about making cookies last year, but it just never seemed to happen.
Maybe we needed stages...last Friday we shopped for ingredients, cookie day we shared lunch, and then we got busy.
I had two of Mom's recipes that were my favorites-peanut butter cookies and oatmeal coconut cookies.
Of course, there are the conversion and ingredients issues that started with cups and Crisco. I've always improvised at the Chatette and we did the same Chez Jolly, but we also weighed everything so we'd have a guide for future.
Jane and I discovered that we are a good team...
...along with our 4-legged helpers!
We complement each other. She is happy to mix away and NOT get the spatula caught in the beaters, and I'm happy to get my hands icky with ingredients and rolling dough into balls for baking.
I'm always learning some new wrinkle to British English.
Of course there is the old reliable "proper."
At one point as the cookies were baking and flattening, Jane said: I can't believe we're really making "proper" cookies.
I just laughed since I'd already mused on about proper coffee, proper fish and chips and so on.
But then when I was rolling balls of dough, Jane commented on their size and said that I wasn't "mean."
The only reason I knew what she meant was because I'd just finished reading C. J. Sansom's most recent book of the Shardlake series-Tombland. "Mean" refers to stingy or not generous.
Jane considered herself "mean" because her cookie balls would have been much smaller than mine.
At the end of our session, we had more cookies than we knew what to do with.
They were tasty and gorgeous and we were happy.
I packed up my share of the cookies and remaining ingredients to take back home. Walking out the door to load up into the car; a gorgeous, moonlit, lotoise night awaited us.
HUGE MERCI to Jane!
Happy Friday!
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