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

[Sue Clemenger]

Yeah, Master A, all the CCC recipes I've run across use some sort of
chemical leavening (usually baking soda, IIRC).
--Maire, who now wants hot cookies for breakfast instead of nice,
healthy, low-fat shredded wheat....*sigh*.....

Philip & Susan Troy wrote:
>
> I'm not a big CCC-maker, so please forgive this question if inane...
> do they _call_ for baking powder? I don't recall a lot of cookies
> that do, offhand. I think most of their puff comes from steam and
> gluten expansion... however, before I go speaking ex cathedra, I
> should think about looking at a recipe...
>
> Adamantius, who is vaguely aware that people do eat chocolate chip
> cookies, but never gave them too much thought