My German Bible study is on vacation so I was left guilt free to host BCF Bible study last night. I had a grand time doing it. Maybe there’s something to the headline I saw in the post office today: “Why women don’t have careers: Differences in hormones that keep women at home” or some such thing. That’s right, last night I worked on my non-career of baking and preparing a warm place for the study of God’s word. Too bad it’s not worthy of the coveted word “career”.
I’m not nearly as annoyed as I might sound. I’m used to having labels slung at me. The point is I had fun hosting the Bible study and people enjoyed my ginger cookies despite the fact that I put two tablespoons of vinegar in rather than two teaspoons. I tried to compensate with more baking soda and it seems to have at least done no harp. The ironic thing is that the reason I was in the post office was to pick up a package for a better chef: my mom. Not only did she have Easter candy and an early birthday present of peanut butter (hip hip horray!), but she sent a tin of – you guessed it – ginger cookies! I’m guessing she put the right amount of the right kind of vinegar and she also used real molasses. I could only find the fake stuff and thought it might not be noticeable in the cookies. I have to say, I like Mom’s better. That’s okay. I have my whole life to learn and hopefully I’ll have lots of people to practice on as I work on my studies for a diploma-less non-career.
The interesting thing about those ginger cookies is that I made them with blackstrap molasses (organic, no less) instead of the regular "Grandma's." I did a one-to-one substitution and I love the result! It's stronger and darker, and has significantly more vitamins and minerals, not that anything is going to make cookies healthy that have so much sugar in them. For the next batch I tried cutting the quantity of white sugar in half, because the cookies are very sweet. Unfortunately, although the result was still plenty sweet, it totally ruined the texture, making it more cake-like and not so deliciously chewy.
Do no harp, and no harp shall be done to you!
The cookies were great, but I still think Janet ought to try again with the correct amount of vinegar, and following that with different variations on the recipe... ;-)
I should have known. Whenever a comment doesn't make any sense it's because there's a typo I didn't see . . .
"at least done no harp" reminds me of doing Mad Libs.
You're so smart! Good to hear from you. Hope you had a great Easter.
