Posted on 12/09/2001 5:24:55 AM PST by Hillary's Lovely Legs
Anyone have a receipe for "MADELINES", and also a good shortbread receipe??
As you can see in the caption, this is a replica of the WH tree set up in the Visitors Center.
First lady Laura Bush and former first lady Barbara Bush pose before a Christmas tree decorated like the one in the White House during a visit to the White House Visitors Center in Washington Sunday, Dec. 9, 2001. The exhibit at the visitors center gives tourists an idea what the executive mansion looks like during the holidays, as the White House is closed to tours this season for security reasons. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) - Dec 09 3:51 PM ET
Cooking is like love.
It should be entered into with abandon
or not at all.
--Harriet Van Horne
Sometimes when I cook, I fear the only thing being "abandoned" is all hope, ye who enter here!
Absolutely. Apologies if someone else beat me to it...I just came back from church and haven't read all the posts yet.
Laura Bush's cookies
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking power
1 tablespoon baking soda
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups (3 sticks) butter, at room temperature
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
1 1/2 cups packed light-brown sugar
3 eggs
1 tablespoon vanilla
3 cups semisweet chocolate chips
3 cups old-fashioned rolled oats
2 cups sweetened flake coconut
2 cups chopped pecans (8 ounces)
Prep Time: 25 minutes
Bake time: 17 to 20 minutes
Yield: About 3 dozen cookies
1. Heat oven to 350.
2. Mix flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt in bowl.
3. In 8-quart bowl, beat butter on medium speed until smooth and creamy, 1 minute. Gradually beat in sugars; beat to combine, 2 minutes.
4. Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each. Beat in vanilla.
5. Stir in flour mixture until just combined. Add chocolate chips, oats, coconut and pecans.
6. For each cookie, drop 1/4 cup dough onto ungreased baking sheets, spacing 3 inches apart.
7. Bake in 350 oven 17 to 29 minutes, until edges are lightly browned; rotate sheets halfway through. Remove cookies from rack to cool.
Note: For 6 dozen small cookies, use 2 tablespoons dough for each. Bake at 350 for 15 to 18 minutes.
(P.S. These are the cookies that beat out Tipper Gore's gingersnap recipe! Take THAT, Tipper! LOL)
Here's some refreshing news:
According to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, while both male and female reindeer grow antlers in the summer each year, male reindeer drop their antlers at the beginning of winter, usually late November to mid-December. Female reindeer retain their antlers till after they give birth in the spring.
Therefore, according to every historical rendition depicting Santa's reindeer, every single one of them-from Rudolph to Blitzen- had to be a girl.
We should've known. Only women, while pregnant, would be able to drag a fat man in a red velvet suit all around the world in one night and not get lost.
Ya, you're another one of those FReepers us NEWBIES lovingly call Lifers
ROFLOL......
What's new about this? My First Wife was doing that for me 44 years ago...(things changed when someone gave her a pair of shoes)
CANDY TRIFLES
2 pkgs. (6 oz each) semisweet chocolate, butterscotch or caramel pieces
1 cup Spanish peanuts 1 to 2 cups chow mein noodles In top of double boiler over hot water, melt chocoate pieces. Stir in nuts and noodles uuntil well coated. Drop mixture by teaspoonfuls onto waxed paper. Chill until firm. Makes about 3 dozen Candy Trifles. QUICK COOK NOTE: When I'm in a hurry I melt my chococlate, butterscotch or caramel pieces in the microwave for 1-2 minutes max. just until softened. Then I remove bowl from microwave and add remaining ingredients.
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