BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe

Subject: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Caitrin
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 10:56 AM

If anyone has come here because his or her cookie won't reset, this is the wrong place. : ) Some people on ICQ last night had expressed an interest in my non-electronic chocolate chip cookie recipe, but I got booted from ICQ before I could give it. So...here it is.

Ingredients:
3 eggs
1 lb. light brown sugar
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
2 tbs. vanilla
1 lb. butter, softened
6 cups flour
1 1/2 tsp. salt
1 1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. baking powder
2 12 oz. packages Ghirardelli choc chips (one bag semi-sweet, one bag milk chocolate)I use Ghirardelli because the chips are bigger, but that's really just a personal preference)
5 cups walnut chunks
1/2 cup Kahlua

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350. In one bowl, beat eggs until frothy. Four into large mixing bowl. Really large. This makes a lot of batter. Add softened butter to eggs. Add sugars and vanilla and mix to combine. Add 1/4 cup of Kahlua and mix in well. Now measure out the six cupos of flour, Sifting each cup into a yet another bowl as you measure. Once all six cups are measured and sifted, add salt, baking soda, and baking powder. Mix well with a fork or whisk. Now add the dry ingredients slowly (about one cup at a time) to the egg mixture. Periodically mix in the remaining 1/4 cup of Kahlua. Once batter is done, fold chocolate chips and nuts into mixture. (Be sure to use a sturdy spoon...a friend of mine broke the handle off of a wooden spoon in this batter!)
Line a cookie sheet with wax paper and use an ice cream scoop to drop batter onto paper. (I can usually fit about 6 cookies on a cookie sheet.) Bake the cookies for 15 minutes and let them cool for at least 5 before attempting to move them. Makes about 50 cookies.
Hope you enjoy them!

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: sophocleese
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 11:09 AM

Wow! That's quite recipe there Caitrin. I'm still jush catshing upp on the hot ruttered bum that Joe gave us. Cookies with Kaaaahlua would be an addishun. Tanks.

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: GUEST,Mbo
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 11:15 AM

Mmmmm...cookies! Sounds great, Caitrin. I'm well known to be a connisseur of cookies--and these sound GREAT!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Amos
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 11:27 AM

How do you Four things into a bowl? One bowl? Four bowls? I want these cookies! :>)

A.

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Caitrin
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 11:50 AM

Oops. That would be "pour". Sorry. Proofread everyting, as one of my favorite doonesbury cartoons says.

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Áine
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 12:37 PM

OOOOOOOHHHHHH . . . AAAAAAHHHHHH . . . MMMMMMMMMMM . . .

These are great! Thank you mucho, Caitrin!!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 03:03 PM

Caitrin, thanks and I bet they taste delicious but what is Kahlua?

Jon

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Allan C.
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 03:13 PM

Jon, look here.

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Amos
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 03:14 PM

You should be able to find it in the nearest liquor store -- it's a coffee-flavored alcohol, strong and tropical tasting. Used for really fancy-pants drinks with little umbrellas in them!! .

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: MMario
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 03:16 PM

coffee liquor. MMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmgood!

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Peg
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 03:22 PM

so when is the Mudcat cookbook coming out?

my contributions would include:

Venison Meatloaf

Cream of Mushroom Soup with Champagne and Tarragon

Grasshopper Brownies

Cheddar-Cauliflower-Bacon Quiche

bon appetit peg

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 03:34 PM

Thanks for the info and Allan for the link. Can't say I've ever seen it though - I'll have to try it if I do if I do find it... although maybe we don't have it in North Wales - I don't know, I loose track with a lot of the drinks - most of the time, I'm just a simple, bitter/stout/cider/whisky drinker...

Jon

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: MMario
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 03:34 PM

Peg - there is a thread for MudCat cookbook - do a search and add your recipes!

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Jeri
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 05:05 PM

Peg - the most recent cookbook thread is here. I'm supposed to be compiling all the threads and sorting things into categories and whatnot. I got started on this and have been very slow working on it.

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Caitrin
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 06:09 PM

Jon, one time I was making these and only had about 1/4 cup of Kahlua, and I substituted bourbon for the rest...it might work for the whole half cup. Or maybe Bailey's Irish Cream...It's at least worth a shot.
Glad you liked them, Aine!

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: The Shambles
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 06:10 PM

Are there any contributions from the Cakes Maid?

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 06:31 PM

Caitrin, I doubt that Baileys would get as far as the cookie mix...

Jon

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: catspaw49
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 06:32 PM

I been drooling over this sucker all day. I continue to resist the temptation to go to the store.

I will not go to the store.
I will not go to the store.
I will not go to the store.
I will not go to the store.
I will not go to the store.
I will not go to the store.
I will not go to the store.
Fockit..I'm going to the store.
I will NOT go to the store.
I will NOT go to the store.
I will not go to the store.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 06:35 PM

Give in spaw,

You WILL go to the store

Jon

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Caitrin
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 06:36 PM

*L* You've got to work on that willpower, Jon! These are good cookies, I promise! Although I can't honestly say how they'd taste with Bailey's.
And 'spaw, they're definitely worth a trip to the store!

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Mbo
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 06:46 PM

Whoa! These are booze cookies? What a concept! You know you can make cake with Coca-Cola?

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: sophocleese
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 06:56 PM

Popular, but misguided, wisdom also suggests that you can kill sperm with Coca Cola, does this mean you can have your cake and eat it too?

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: catspaw49
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 07:05 PM

I don't want to hear another word from anyone about ME around this place....Not another word. Soph, that really was hard to swallow.......

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Amos
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 07:09 PM

'SPaw you is SECH a bad possum-blower. I wouldn't think you'd find anything hard to swallow after all your time cruising the MudCat side of town.
.
I for one am making these cookies, ice-scream scoop and all, and will report back on how hard (or otherwise) they are to swallow..
.
A

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Willie-O
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 07:38 PM

"We don't eat cookies, cause cookies have yeast.
One little bite turns a man to a beast..."

apparently, it doesn't even take the bite...

W-O

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Caitrin
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 07:51 PM

*shakes head in dismay* Y'all are bad, bad people. : )

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Amos
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 08:00 PM

Oh can you imagine, a sorrier sight?
Then a man eating Cookies until he gets tight!!!

Ah, well, that's virtual reality for you!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Sorcha
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 10:55 PM

Been to the store yet, 'spaw?

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Áine
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 10:59 PM

'Ach, the poor creature,' said the red-haired woman as she watched the weaving saggy butted tortoise attempt to make his way home from the liquor store. 'And to think all he wanted was a wee bottle of the sweet brown stuff for his cookies,' she sighed, shaking her head.

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Alice
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 11:13 PM

gee, we used to make these brownies with stuff in them when I was in college........

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Mbo
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 11:16 PM

You roomates with Alice B. Toklas?

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Alice
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 11:17 PM

The classic Alice B. Toklas cookbook... I thought every tie-dyed in the wool hippie girl had that brownie recipe.

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: catspaw49
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 11:55 PM

Ya know Alice, the LAST grass I did was in some really fudgy Brownies and I found myself going something just over 10 mph on I-70 with one part of my brain saying "Speed up Asshole, the cops are goin' ta gitcha'" while the other part screamed "TOO FAST!!!"

I figured that would about do it....until the next night when my friend baked another batch and I was riding home at 3 AM on my 903 and kept looking down 'cause I thought my feet were on fire.

Spaw (and I didn't go to the store...its too damn cold)

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Alice
Date: 28 Jan 00 - 07:47 AM

Well, Spaw, thank God my college days are long ago and far away.... I wish I had never been exposed to the brownie crowd. (Sorry for diverging, Caitrin, your recipe sounds great.)

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Allan C.
Date: 28 Jan 00 - 08:01 AM

I have diverged once or twice myself, Alice. Kinda liked it!

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Caitrin
Date: 28 Jan 00 - 09:24 AM

I hate to disappoint you, but the closest the cookies will come to messing anyone's brain up is the large amount of sugar and chocolate in 'em. : ) That half cup of Kahlua is awfully spread out.

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: MMario
Date: 28 Jan 00 - 09:27 AM

It's the thought that counts. And I bet they would be fantasmagoricalistic! with Baileys....

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Sorcha
Date: 28 Jan 00 - 09:58 AM

It's snowing here again today...and when stuff falls outa the sky, your'e s'posed to bake somethng, my mama always said, so I AM going to the store!! Two of them actually, because of our booze laws. NO BOOZE in grocery stores, the kiddies might see it!

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Áine
Date: 28 Jan 00 - 10:10 AM

All right Sorcha! We all expect a full report (full of cookie crumbs, that is) on the cookies and your state of mind after imbibing, I mean, consuming, them.

-- Áine (staring at the ice on the driveway and cursing the sleet gods!)

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Bert
Date: 28 Jan 00 - 11:06 AM

Of course it's not the cookies that are the problem, it's what you do with the rest of the bottle after you've poured the 1/2 cup into the dough.

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Sorcha
Date: 28 Jan 00 - 12:25 PM

That is a PROBLEM??

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Alice
Date: 28 Jan 00 - 01:11 PM

Kahlua and cream.... Very nice evening treat, and it is not one with an umbrella. I think I have a Kahlua recipe around somewhere. Friends made it as Christmas gifts one year and gave the recipe along with the bottle. The best price on Kahlua, of course, is in Mexico... and no guzano (worm) in the bottom like mescal has.

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Sorcha
Date: 28 Jan 00 - 06:24 PM

**************CAITRIN'S KAHLUA COOKIE UPDATE!************* LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I am here to tell you this is the BEST chocolate chip cookie recipe I have ever tried. I split the recipe in 1/2, and made 1/2 with Kahlua and 1/2 with Bailey's....both are aboslutely SCRUMPTIOUS!!!Nice and chewy, and full of chocolate!! I think I actually prefer the Bailey's ones, just a hint of Irish Cream.....ummm, good. Definitely worth a trip to the store. Oh, yeah, the little airline size mini bottles are exactly 1/4 cup each, so all you people who are worried about leftovers, just buy the little ones instead. BTW, the recipe halves beautifully. THANKS, CAITRIN!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Caitrin
Date: 28 Jan 00 - 07:22 PM

I'm so glad you liked them, Sorcha! I'm going to give the Bailey's cookies a shot. And I'd never tried halving them, so that's good to know, too. : )

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Áine
Date: 28 Jan 00 - 07:29 PM

Ok, Sorcha, so we know *you* liked them . . . what about those little fellas in knee britches that started dancing around the kitchen after you'd eaten about six of these sinful delights? Did the whirring wings of the wee women flying about your face distract you from your consumption of same? What about that funny looking white horse in the garden?

-- Áine

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Mbo
Date: 28 Jan 00 - 07:39 PM

And what about the pink spiders--with stripes?

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Alice
Date: 28 Jan 00 - 07:53 PM

Mbo, you mean the pink spiders the size of elephants? Seriously, Caitrin, as soon as I trim off that last 5 pounds, the first sugar binge I will go on will be with your cookies... promise.

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Sorcha
Date: 28 Jan 00 - 08:49 PM

Well, the Little Guys tend to stay out of sight in my kitchen lest they get stepped on or run over by frapping Corgis. I can however, testify that 15 yr old females can eat more than six. The gentleman with the "Enhanced Grain Storage Center" is sleeping, so he hasn't tried them yet. It's so cold here that I think all the bahn-sidhe's have hibernated for the winter in empty Bailey's bottles. Mbo & Alice-- I DO NOT have either pink elephants or spiders in my kitchen....I relegate same to the desolate garden. Kitchen space is reserved for empty Bailey's bottles.

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: GUEST,Rayvon
Date: 28 Jan 00 - 10:21 PM

Oh can you imagine a greater disgrace, Than a man in the gutter with crumbs on his face.

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Caitrin
Date: 29 Jan 00 - 08:37 PM

Oh can you think of a sorrier vision
than one crumb of these cookies left for the pigeons?

Ok, so the rhyme is a little shaky. : )

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Amos
Date: 30 Jan 00 - 02:33 AM

Sometimes I live in the city; An' sometimes I live in the town. Sometimes I take a great notion... To chow Caitrin's cookies down.

Goodnight, Caitrin McGillicuddy, wherever you are! Farewell ,sweet Aine, until the morrow; When cookies shall dispel all mortal sorrow.

A.

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 30 Jan 00 - 04:45 PM

I've got a recipe for 17th Century cakes (actually they're big soft cookies like Easter biscuits) that have cream and sherry in them. Ran out of sherry once and used madiera instead...... MMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....! anyone interested?

LTS

(I've made them with my home made beetroot wine for lack of any other alcohol, the beetroot wine had fermented twice - that was interesting!)

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Áine
Date: 30 Jan 00 - 04:58 PM

Go for it, Liz!! These sound wonderful!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Caitrin
Date: 31 Jan 00 - 04:23 PM

Please share, Liz!

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: MMario
Date: 31 Jan 00 - 04:46 PM

Shrewsbury cakes? whatever, yes, let's see the recipe!

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Amos
Date: 31 Jan 00 - 09:27 PM

Caitrin, you invisible silent sorceress! We send you praise; look on our cookie fest pigout session here in real-time and accept our thanks for your most Delicious Blessings. These Great Big Cookies are the cat's pajamas!!

(Try running that through an AI translator!)

With gratitude,

Amos

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Caitrin
Date: 31 Jan 00 - 09:44 PM

We are pleased to hear that you enjoyed our blessings. : )

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: MMario
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 04:48 PM

Amos - if that's a challange, I can't REACH the blasted translator from here....but I'm willing to try from home!

MMario

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Áine
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 04:56 PM

Dear Caitrin,

If you haven't seen it already, please check out Amos' song, 'Gastronomic Passions' on the Mudcat Songbook -- It mentions you a *few* times (hahaha).

-- Áine

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Amos
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 04:57 PM

Well, I'm not convinced, being a professional wordsmith, that we'll see AI do anything very poetic with language for a long time to come, if ever. My personal secret opinion is that AI is an oxymoron.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Micca
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 04:59 PM

Heath and Safety warning,
Those of us who know think it only fair to warn you that anything involving Liz the Squeak and alcohol is to be treated with great care cf the permanently burning Christmas pud, the Chocolate mousse that were stronger than 3 double whiskys,and her capacity for consuming madeira. but i can vouch for the recipe, all we have to do now is get her to publish it,COME ON LIZ.

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Sorcha
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 06:50 PM

Do we need to get a "Cheerleader Thingie" going here?,
Yeah, Liz,Yeah, Liz
Bake 'em Up Bake 'me Up!
Post it!Post it! Post it!!!
GGOOOOO, LIZ!
I need a recipe for a gather next week pretty please?:>)

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: sophocleese
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 07:30 PM

Pretty please Liz, please, please, please, please, pleeeeeeease!

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Áine
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 07:36 PM

I, too, humble myself before the Liz -- please, please, please Liz, do not keep us in such agony any longer! Post the darn recipe or I'll be callin' up my friends with the crooked noses and cauliflower ears . . . (just kidding -- the guys I know that look like are the sweetest fellas in the world, if truth be known).

Come Liz, arm wrestle that madeira away from Micca and start typing!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: MMario
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 08:54 AM

okay - the tranlators don't like that paragraph. Oddly enough, the word most of them had the most trouble with was "cat's"

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Amos
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 08:57 AM

Thread creep galore, Mario! What did the translator say "the cat's pajamas" meant?

A

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Amos
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 10:18 AM

Caitrin and the Geeks (Tune: Bar'bry ellen)

When Caitrin to this thread appeared,
Her cookies were appealing!
And soon the galley in my house
Was a mess from floor to ceiling!

I stirred and poured and measured out, And ruined several aprons!
I broke my wristbone stirring dough
Designed by charmin' Caitrin!

And when the over doors had closed
And I was done with messing!
I said a prayer to the Cookie God
And asked for Caitrin's blessing.

And when the baking smell arose
I thought it most auspicious
I gobbled down the first one out!
That cookie was delicious!

I ate another few just then
And kept on madly baking!
And soon the counters were all full
And the table nigh to breaking!

Then slowly, slowly, I stood up
My awe for Caitrin mounting!
So many cookies, ne'er I'd seen,
Too many far for counting!

I stacked them up on platters high
When my own waistline was dragging.
And staggered with them to the door
They filled my station wagon.

Then to the office I repaired
All carbo'd out and laggard!
And down the hall, to a table there,
With Caitrin's cakes I staggered.

'Twas early early, in the morn
When first I brought such plenty!
But before noon, I swear 'tis true
The platters all stood empty!

So if you have too many made,
Ye need not trash or bail them!
Just bring them to a Software House
And let the geeks inhale them!!

Thanks for the yummie cookies!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Áine
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 10:24 AM

Amos,

How do you do this so early in the morning? May I add this, yet another Amos Wonder, to the Songbook, please?

-- Áine

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: MMario
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 10:34 AM

Amos - the translator I was using just puts the english into brackets if it doesn't have a correspondence. it was "cat's" rather then "pajamas" that didn't translate the most....maybe because possessive? I'll have to try again using "the pajamas of the cat"

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Amos
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 10:55 AM

Anything I post here of a creative nature that has any value is yours forever, Texas Lady. As the Keeper of the Tome, consider it yours. If you can fix the line where I missed putting in the break it'll look better!

And early morning after the first assault on the beaches of reality is the best time to dredge up doggerel!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Mbo
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 10:58 AM

I wish I had time to do things in the morning....

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Amos
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 11:07 AM

Mornings are Time, too, Mbo! :>)

A

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Mbo
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 11:45 AM

But time to wake up at 6:30 every morning and getting a runny nose and freezing my freckled cheeks off because of the nasty ol' wind is not good time! Goatee keeps the chin warm--but the cheeks don't have no hair--maybe I need a ski mask! Ha! I'd rather be writing songs anyday! Especially on "pullcart" day!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Amos
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 11:53 AM

Mbo, lad,

You can come to San Diego; we have rain that's warm enough to walk in, beaches long enough to walk on, it never freezes (hardly ever) and February, cruelest month, is light jacket weather. Outstanding universities, high-tech jobs, and glad to have ye, too!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Mbo
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 12:03 PM

I know all about San Diego! I lived in Oceanside for 3 years and San Clemente for another 3. We sure went to a lot of museums in San Diego! Not to mention Scripps Aquarium! And my mother still has nightmares about the tortuously hilly San Diego Zoo! Wait....what about The Santa Anna Winds? Then your cheeks MELT off!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: MMario
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 12:16 PM

Caitrin, 'ch 'n anwel 'n dawedog ddewines! Anfonasom 'ch arawd; drem ymlaen 'n chog yl bwyta debyced dyrchod 'ma i mewn 'n sylweddol-adeg a chymer 'n ddiolch canys 'ch 'n fwyaf 'n bêr Bendithion. 'n hyn Gymaint Gymaint Chog ydy 'r cysgu ddillad chan 'r cath!

back to english this gives....

Cait, do bow; assembled debyced hogs here confound I may be used conjuring Blessings. I have connected the cat!

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Amos
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 12:29 PM

Laughing out loud MM!!

Confound indeed I may be used conjuring Blessings!! Heee hee! AI, my royal Irish funnybone!!

A.

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: MMario
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 12:33 PM

your Irish majesty I bow to your superior knowledge if not to your debyced hogs. Is debyced english? what does it mean?

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Mbo
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 12:37 PM

Hey, I'm no debyced hog! BTW Mario, what in the world WAS that?

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Amos
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 12:42 PM

Debycing is what that translator did to the English paragraph we fed it. Debyced it all to hell, it did. Never saw such debyced prattle in all my years as a Bycer!

(Oops! That's suposed to be a secret known only to the Royal Order! )

AI poop! Hee hee!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Mbo
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 12:46 PM

Doesn't the guy in "The Orange & The Green" say "Me being strictly neutral, I byced everyone in sight"? Captain Mario, I think we need Geordi to take a look at that universal translator!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 07:33 PM

ALRIGHT!!!! I get the message, I will post the recipe tomorrow, when I don't have anything else to do, so far this week I've done one church meeting, one sewing evening, one church service and a birthday party, and it is only Wednesday!!! Tomorrow is Thurs, and I'm not doing anything (yet) so I will sort out the recipe. They aren't Shrewsbury cakes, that is a much flatter, biscuit (cookie) recipe. These are just 17th Century, and have raisins in them.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: sophocleese
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 07:44 PM

Oh thank you! Goody, goody, goody!

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Bert
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 08:09 PM

They sound great bubbles(Liz) the Squeak. I want that recipe. Hurry up.

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Áine
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 08:12 PM

Thank you, Liz!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 03 Feb 00 - 05:55 PM

I don't do the cup thing....... Orthe metric thing, heck, I've only just stopped counting the sticks of firewood out for the stove!

8 ounces (oz) plain flour
4 oz unsalted butter
2 oz brown sugar
2 oz caster sugar
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg or cinnamon
8 oz currants or raisins - these can be soaked in sherry if you like......
1 egg yolk
1 tablespoon cream
1 small measure sherry, sweeter the better. Any sweetish, fortified wine can be used, like Madeira, white port... it is supposed to be sack, an old English drink that was sweetish and quite alcoholic. Anything than drink the water....

Rub the butter and flour together until crumbly. Add sugar, spices and currants. Mix well. Add the other ingredients and mix to a stiff dough. If it is too sticky, add more flour. On a floured board, roll out to about half an inch thick (the thickness of the average wooden spoon handle - a use for the one that broke making Caitrins' cookies earlier....) and cut into rounds with a large cutter or the wide end of a pint glass. Prick with a fork and bake in a moderate oven - gas mark a5, 350f or 180c. Turn out to cool on a rack and dust with caster sugar before cool.

Enjoy - they can be used as Easter biscuits if you like, they are similar in construction, but a bit richer with the cream and sherry and that.....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Amos
Date: 03 Feb 00 - 06:00 PM

yay Squeak!

I'll do 'em this weekend.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 03 Feb 00 - 06:09 PM

So who is going to produce the Mudcat cookie book.....

Have I just talked myself into a job?

What the hell, if people are interested.........?

Anyone want to send me cookie recipies do so at:
[e-mail]

I've already got a few......

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Áine
Date: 03 Feb 00 - 06:48 PM

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Liz!!!

Do the recipes for the book have to be for cookies? I make a mean apple, raisin and cinnamon pie -- ends up tasting like mince meat, only *much* better! Will your take that one?

-- Áine

(P.S. If we keep this up, we'll have to take up a contribution for a personal trainer for Amos!!)

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Amos
Date: 03 Feb 00 - 07:53 PM

OK, Big Red! Let's see it!!

A