Thread stealers with too much on their minds

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 8:31 pm

FTP

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 8:31 pm

Hitman4 wrote:

watching the dog show because I don't want to watch the state of the union address.

oh, wait a minute...this is the state of the union address.

I'm watching hockey.

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 8:33 pm

blue_cougar54494 wrote:

Hitman4 wrote:

I would like a p-nut butter cookie. It must have the fork prongs dented in it to make me happy.

I use the tenderizing side of a meat mallot to make the indentions. It goes alot faster. And no I don't whack the dough to make the indentions.
Laughing

are p-nut butter cookies supposed to be pronged or forked or "tenderized"
is there a point to it?

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 8:36 pm

I have no idea. Maybe to distinguish them from look alikes?

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 8:40 pm

The early peanut butter cookies were rolled thin and cut into shapes. They were also dropped and made into balls. They did not have fork marks. The first reference to the famous criss-cross marks created with fork tines was published in the Schenectady Gazette on July 1, 1932. The Peanut Butter Cookies recipe said "Shape into balls and after placing them on the cookie sheet, press each one down with a fork, first one way and then the other, so they look like squares on waffles." Pillsbury, one of the large flour producers, popularized the use of the fork in the 1930s. The Peanut Butter Balls recipe in the 1933 edition ofPillsbury's Balanced Recipes instructed the cook to press the cookies using fork tines. The 1932 or 1933 recipes do not explain why this advice is given, though: peanut butter cookie dough is dense, and without being pressed, it will not cook evenly. Using a fork to press the dough is a convenience; bakers can also use a cookie shovel.

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 8:43 pm

What in the world is a cookie shovel? Shocked

My hand, maybe????? Shoveling them in my mouth as soon as they're cool enough to handle!

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 8:46 pm

I've pressed PB cookies with a potato masher before.

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 8:51 pm

Interesting info on PB cookies. Thanks!

I'm also a cookie shoveler.

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 8:54 pm

Must use fork. Press once, turn 90˚, press again.

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 8:57 pm

Agree. The double-fork press really brings out the flavor!

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 8:59 pm

labrat_wr wrote:

I've pressed PB cookies with a potato masher before.

Ohhhhhhhh something new to try!!!

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 9:20 pm

Potato masher makes squiggly lines.

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 9:27 pm

The masher i have has little squares instead of the old fashioned squiggle looking.

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 9:27 pm

13 squiggley lines

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 9:28 pm

gotta make 'em big enough to fully match the potato mashers outer roundness.