[Sca-cooks] Cookies

[Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Stefan li Rous:
>Margaret commented:
>>That, darling, is why I made drop cookies. :-)
>>
>>  I was going to do spritz, but my wrist threatened to secede, so they
>>became drop cookies. I can work a cookie scoop left-handed, I can't work a
>>spritz bag. Go figure.
>
>Huh? What is a "spritz" and what is a "spritz" bag?

You know those pretty, uniform, extruded little butter cookies often
seen at this time of year? They're often made (or at least used to
be) with a thing like a pastry bag with a rosette tip, which is
called, harking back to the language of the particular culture
responsible for these cookies (presumably German or Dutch), a spritz
bag. The cookies are frequently known as spritz cookies.

Nowadays things can be a little more complicated, with a dingus like
a giant hypodermic syringe, which, instead of a needle at the end,
has a variety of interchangeable tips and differently-perforated
extrusion plates (for example, little Christmas trees, etc.). This is
sometimes called a spritz gun or cookie gun. You squoosh the gun's
plunger/trigger thingy, and the pressurized dough blorts out through
the holes in the shape of whatever plate you are using. Good for
making a billion little, nearly identical cookies. You would, of
course, use a recipe designed to produce a dough of the right
consistency for this job.

Adamantius