[Sca-cooks] OOP-soldier cookies

[Ang Malone]

This is a great idea.  If you aren't able to find a way to publish it 
in actual paper maybe you could post it up on the web somewhere, or 
share a few of the recipes here.  I have a friend who is in the 
women's auxilary for the local american legion and I am sure that 
they would like to have recipes like that, for pretty much the same 
reason you did it to send homemade cookies to local soldiers.

         Angeline.



>Message: 9
>Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:18:28 -0700
>From: "Georgia Foster" <jo_foster81 at hotmail.com>
>Subject: [Sca-cooks] OOP - Soldier Cookies
>To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
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>OK ... so some of you already have the story ... My son is serving 
>in the Air Force, stationed at Hill AFB and on TDY to Qatar.  My 
>housemates cousin's son is a forward unit Marine, also serving in 
>Iraq.  There is a lad at Walter Reed AMH who is having a bit of life 
>right now and needed some cheering up.  Each and every week these 
>lads receive a box of home-made cookies.  For my son, he takes his 
>box to the hospital at the base ans shares it with the service 
>members there.  My housemate's relative is squad leader and has a 
>group of 11 other boys he is responsible for. The lad at Walter Reed 
>shares among his ward mates.  Each box contains four dozen cookies 
>vacu-sealed and packaged in a box padded with wrapped candy.  In 
>five weeks, all three lads will be back home in their respective 
>homes, and the Soldier Cookies project will be over.  I have mixed 
>emotions about that.
>
>Some of the challenges that have become apparent in this process:
>
>most cookie recipes are for 3 dozen cookies.  That is fine for a 
>family of four.  I mail out 9 dozen cookies a week, plus keep our 
>home cookie jar full and extras for the little warm cookie snatchers 
>under my roof.  Simply doubling the recipe is OK for some, but 
>others do not double well, leave off with tripling, quadrupling or 
>bigger.  I kept track of the changes that I made to each recipe in 
>order to make it biggerererer.
>
>some cookies just don't ship well.  Others require special 
>packaging, and all of them need to arrive at their destination two 
>weeks later and still taste fresh.
>
>SO
>
>I am considering putting together a book of cookie recipes that will 
>ship well and keep well.  What do you folks think?
>
>
>
>Jo (Georgia L.) Foster