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I know there are thousands of cookie recipes out there but these are the only oatmeal cookies I like. If you are a coffee drinker, and you dunk them in coffee they are sublime.
How good these sound. I will be making these....might not be able to eat but a crumb or two with these stupid dietary requirements I have. but I will enjoy those crumbs while Mr. Chickie will love the cookies. Thanks for posting a treasure from your past.
Butter: if the recipe doesn't say, use the salted butter. That has been fermented and has a stronger butter taste in baked goods.
If the recipe wants unsalted butter, it will call for unsalted butter. Unsalted butter is mostly used for frying. It doesn't burn or smoke as quickly as salted butter and it is slightly easier to clarify. if you are clarifying butter.
Personally, I only use salted butter. I prefer the stronger butter flavor. The unsalted butter has a more "clear" flavor because the cream was not fermented.
On this salt issue, I seriously suggest that you don't salt until the last moment and taste as you go, adding salt gradually. Nearly every modern recipe calls for way too much salt and way too much sugar to please the Mickey Dee trained taste buds.
For baked goods, I generally cut the salt amount in half with very good results (except for bread where the salt is part of the yeast rising process)
I made these yesterday morning. Due to lower fat gram requirements in the family, I used margarine instead of butter. Let me tell you, these are wonderful!
I was surprised they were pretty flat and rather spread out, but the taste is yummy!
I took some to my 83 year old aunt and she thought they were wonderful. She went on and on and on telling me how good they were. Of course Mr. Chickie has eaten almost the rest of the batch since yesterday. I had one, broken up in pieces, and eaten at different times so I wouldn't get too much sugar at one time. Just wish I could eat more of these - maybe I will have another one today spread out over the day.
Superb is my descriptive word for these. Thanks gentlearts for posting.
Butter: if the recipe doesn't say, use the salted butter. That has been fermented and has a stronger butter taste in baked goods.
Personally, I only use salted butter. I prefer the stronger butter flavor. The unsalted butter has a more "clear" flavor because the cream was not fermented.
Funny as I think the opposite in terms of the creamy butter flavor. I think unsalted butter is more buttery in flavor than salted. Especially in baking or clarifying or drawn. I wonder if what we think of the taste buttery is different? To me it should be creamy with a bite of 'aged' flavor. I should note I only use European butters. Maybe American butter is different? I have to buy some one day and try it.
Question about cookies , should unsalted butter always be used in cookies, recipes never say.
The amount of salt in butter varies from brand to brand. There's anywhere from 1/4 to 3/4 teaspoon per half cup. When baking with salted butter, either eliminate or reduce the amount of salt called for in the recipe.
I baked these last week. They were great with a cold glass of milk! Gotta say... the dough was seriously delicious. We could have eaten the whole batch unbaked.
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