Mixing it up
mixing it up
AmericanOtherEasy30 minBy Northstar
Ingredients
Servings
4
- 1. Creaming. You cream butter or other fat with the sugar, salt and spices, then add eggs and
- 2. One-stage. In this method you put all ingredients into one bowl and mix slowly together.
Instructions
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other liquids. Finally, you mix in the sifted dry ingredients. Creaming the fat has a different purpose
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here than in cake batters. Here it is just a way of mixing the ingredients, and you need not be as
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careful or thorough. Although air in the dough is desirable to lighten the product, it is not as
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essential as in cakes.
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While this is a quick method, it produces denser, drier cookies and bars. Usually the more work that
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goes into baking, the better the result. Try the two different methods to make the same cookie when
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you are ambitious on a rainy Sunday afternoon and taste the difference for yourself.
Tags
american