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The week my grandma's cookie recipe nearly killed my crew
Last Tuesday I tried to bake my grandma's famous sour cream cookies for the guys on the job site in Tacoma. Forgot to use baking powder instead of baking soda and they came out like hockey pucks that could've patched drywall. Anyone else ever botch a family recipe that bad?
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karenhenderson25d ago
Hold your horses, hockey pucks sound like a huge improvement over those weirdly flat, greasy discs my aunt passed off as cookies last Christmas. At least yours had structural integrity and could've been repurposed instead of just sitting there mocking everyone from the plate. Seems like you accidentally leveled up a family tradition into something more useful.
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linda30525d ago
Is it really that deep though? Like okay the cookies were bad, but calling them hockey pucks and acting like some structural integrity is a win feels a little dramatic. Greasy flat discs are still cookies, they're just sad ones. You can't repurpose a hockey puck cookie for anything except maybe a doorstop or a paperweight, which is just as useless as the original. Your aunt is probably just trying her best and now everyone is out here analyzing her baking failures like it's a food science experiment. Maybe just let the lady make her greasy discs in peace.
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willow24421d ago
My grandma's sugar cookies were so dense one year my little cousin used one as a hockey puck too, just smacked it across the kitchen floor with a spatula and it didn't even crack. Honestly @linda305 I see your point about letting people bake in peace, but when a cookie can survive a concrete collision maybe we're past the point of calling it a cookie and into the realm of construction material. I'd take structural integrity over a greasy tragedy any day, at least mine could hold up a wobbly table leg or keep a window from rattling in the wind.
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