[Sca-cooks] guess the mistake, was RE: Chocolate chip cookies

[Sandra Kisner]

>OK, I have a chocolate chip cookie question.  Many years
>ago, I made a batch of chocolate chip cookies, using the
>recipe from the back of the package (I think it was the
>"Original Toll House" one that came on the yellow and brown
>package), and I did something wrong.  The result tasted
>like a normal chocolate chip cookie but looked sort of lacy
>-- very flat/thin, with little holes in it.

     Were you using margarine rather than butter?  Perhaps it was "spread" rather than margarine; the extra water would affect the cookie dough, though I'm not sure if it would create the lacy effect you describe.

Sandra Kisner
sjk3 at cornell.edu