Chief Longwind Of The North
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I made myself some peanutbutter cookies for DW. They came out good. I wanted to make something that I I could eat, and so looked up a T&T shortbread recipe. DW had found some dark, grade A Maple syrup, and I decided to replace the sugar in the recipe with the syrup. I did so and the shortbread batter came out too sopy. I added extra sugar to firm it uup. I also used about a half stick more butter than I shlould have as I didn't carefully measue and just winged it. I lined a bakingpan with foil and put in the batter. I popped it all into the oven for the correct time and temp, and checked it when the timer went off. The contents were very soupy. I cooked the shortbread for an additional 20 minuts to firm it up. I took it from the oven, and it looked ok. I put it out in our chill winter aire to cool. Shen I tried to cut it, it was almost impossible to cut. What had hahppened is that I was in effect, making a maple-flavored caremel, with flour and butter addded. The extra cooking time took the sugars to the soft-crack stage. It tastes great, but has the texture of a slow poke. It's very hard to cut. It's very chewy, tastes great, but is a challenge o eat, especially at the edges. All I can say is that it's a good thing I have strong teeth and jaws. Lessson learned. follow recipes more closely.
Seeeeeeya: chief Longwind of the North
Seeeeeeya: chief Longwind of the North