cookies

if you ask Miriam what her job is, she will tell you it is to make cookies.

She will go on about how her husband (me, so far) just loves cookies. That is true. But it is also a conundrum.

A long time ago she bought a cook book of "mixes". It suggests making a big batch of this basic mix and then using it for all sorts of things. Not a bad idea. Bisquick is a commercial product that comes to mind.

The problem is that it involves two different recipes and they are in the same book and it is easy to get confused and easy to mess up. Her cookies have been less and less consistent, even from the same recipe.

What to do. I am not sure that making them is so fabulously good for her that she needs to continue, neither am I sure that she should not. Indeed she gets satisfaction, when things go right.

The other part of the problem is that she makes 2 or 3 dozen cookies at a time, puts them in a plastic bag and that in an old chocolate drink can. In a day or two they are all welded into one big lump. You eat crumbs or you eat a 1 and 1/4" thick cookie sandwich.

This morning, before she gets up, I think I'll put the mix recipe away, and make up a batch of dough and then put it all in the refer. After breakfast when I'll suggest that she bake the cookies.

Stilll they will glue together. One problem solved one (or more) to go. I could (and might) just stop eating them, so there is always some in the can!