[Sca-cooks] Recipegate reply from Isabella

[Daniel & Elizabeth Phelps]

Well, to me it looks like a pretty standard chocolate chip cookie recipe, 
with the addition of the oats. To give Senator Clinton her due, at some 
point in her life she probably baked some cookies, and maybe made some with 
Chelsea when she was a kid. Both Dan and I make cookies with Margaret, our 
oldest, who will be six in July. I don't need to tell the good gentles on 
this list how much fun that is to do.
I am in danger of going on a populist rant now, (Dan's getting a little 
tired of hearing my populist rants this year (;-p ) so I will close by 
saying  that my own personal favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe is Alton 
Brown's puffy cookies, I used to use the one on the back of the Toll House 
bag, but they tended to scorch around the edges. I had to leave a batch of 
this once, and by the time I was able to get back to it the chocolate chips 
had melted, so after calling my brother in law the health inspector to make 
sure I wouldn;t be poisoning us, I stirred it up and had some rather 
interesting chocolate cookies. My personal favorite chocolate chips are the 
Ghirardelli Double Chocolate. They're nice and big, a good dark chocolate. 
Some time I'll make it with the 70% or 85% Lindt just to see how it comes 
out. I save the 85% Lindt for when I'm studying for a big test; Dan won't 
touch it. Too much chocolate for him...(;-)
Cookies are so much more fun than politics, but politics is better than war, 
so it's all relative. If there is a more perfect food in the world than a 
good chocolate chip cookie, I haven't had it yet!
Signing off with hunger pangs,
Isabella de la Gryffin
(Dan's better half-his favorite cookies are oatmeal raisin)

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
Frank Zappa

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like 
administering medicine to the dead.
Thomas Paine
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gretchen Beck" <grm at andrew.cmu.edu>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 3:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Recipegate reply from Isabella


>
> Odd, because Hillary's chocolate chip cookie recipe for this is all over
> the net, including here (with her signature attached)
>
> <http://clinton2.nara.gov/WH/EOP/First_Lady/html/cookies.html>
>
> toodles, margaret
>
> --On Wednesday, April 16, 2008 2:56 PM -0500 otsisto <otsisto at socket.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Though it may have been implied, all was asked was a recipe for thier
>> favorite cookie and nothing said about them having baked it.
>> I remember the reporters were trying to make out that Hillary was dising
>> homemakers with her comment.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> Gee, in 1991 or 2, Hillary Clinton and Barbara Bush were asked for
>> their favorite cookie recipe, I think by some magazine, and Mrs. Bush
>> promptly provided one, tactfully neglecting to mention that she hadn't
>> eaten a bite of food prepared by herself in her entire life. Mrs.
>> Clinton answered foolishly, but honestly, saying, "Cookies? Are you
>> kidding me? When could I possibly have time to worry about cookies?"
>>
>>
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