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

[johnna holloway]

Corriher's volume Cookwise gives 2 recipes
for chocolate chip cookies that call for
baking powder and not baking soda. I am
under the impression that the original
1930's recipe has changed through the ages,
but I can't lay my hands on the various volume(s)
at the moment that detail this. I do know that
originally the cookie came before the
manufacture of the chocolate chip and that one
broke up or chipped by hand block or bar chocolate
for the cookies. Then they made the bags of chips.

Johnna Holloway  Johnnae



> >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 agree, most of the recipes I've seen call for baking soda. But I
> was asking about baking powder, which I would expect to find more in
> cakes than in cookies.>
> Adamantius