{"id":6465,"date":"2012-12-06T21:19:29","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T02:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=6465"},"modified":"2012-12-07T11:59:34","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T16:59:34","slug":"my-heart-is-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/my-heart-is-broken\/","title":{"rendered":"My heart is broken"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got up early today to make the dough for the spoon cookies<\/a>, and decided to multiply the recipe X 5, instead of 4, in the hope of getting a few more of these little charmers. This meant 10 sticks (2 1\/2 pounds) of butter, and I was getting mixed up as to whether my multiplier was 10 or 5. I was so happy after I successfully browned the butter, and I got everything cleaned up and headed off to work. About halfway there, I realized that although I had multiplied the sugar &\u00a0 butter by 5; the 10 sticks, and 3 1\/4 cups of sugar, NOT 7 1\/2 cups of sugar – I put in 3 TBLS + 1 tsp. of baking soda (1 tsp. x 10). The cookies are really fragile anyways, and all that extra soda would just make them fall apart.<\/p>\n

I guess a more conservative<\/del> scientific cook would have at least test-baked a few, to test if the blowing up from too much soda theory was valid – but I didn’t have the heart to invest anymore time. I threw it out and started over. And actually, I was supported in this move by our current house guest, who’s come from Atlanta to do research here at UW, and who bakes a lot. She pointed out that too much baking soda also tastes really bad – so I would’ve had overly fragile, not even good tasting, cookies.<\/p>\n

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Dumped dough<\/p><\/div>\n

12 hours later, 8:30 p.m., about 3\/4 of the second batch of dough is baked, and I am listening to my students present online, hoping to get back to baking and jamming by 9:30.<\/p>\n

16 hours later, at 12:30 a.m., I went to bed with 153 little spoon cookies resting on trays to set their jam. Means I made over 300 of the little mounds – yikes. And it was my only cookie kind of the day, in an increasingly compacted cookie season. But still, my heart is mending.<\/p>\n

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2012 spoon cookies – yup, there’s lots of them. And for breakfast this morning I got to have yogurt with ultra-thick cherry\/strawberry preserves – the fruit strained out of the jam I used to fill the cookies<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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