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

[johnna holloway]

What about a bad batch or old baking powder?
You might read what Shirley Corriher says about
these cookies in Cookwise and there also has been
articles in Cooks Illustrated through the years.
Johnnae
Johnna Holloway


Sandra Kisner wrote:>
> >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.
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>      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