Have a (chocolate chip) cookie
1/youtube alton brown cooks food cookies
He has improved his chewie cookie. Called the browned butter addition. I think I missed that good eats episode
I have not had his recipe. But sometimes I like a nice thin crisp cookie. So not sure on his staticts…
The standard recipe in our family is chocolate chip oatmeal cookies. I’m both not sure why the oatmeal or how it would impact his calculations. But it is chewey
What’s your recipe?
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This appears to no align with him in anyway, shape or form. And yes I’m gonna get after my sisters why we don’t have scans of the recipe cards still when I offered to do it a decade ago.
I honestly didn’t remember the vanilla pudding but it’s a large batch. Lots of oatmeal there. I mostly remember barely being able to mix it as a kid
I’ve usually made the trad Toll House recipe with a few mods, one being that I drop the dough on the sheet and then stick that in the fridge for an hour before baking. I’ve made them with dark brown sugar instead of light, and I liked the results. I agree with Alton about using bread flour, and going by weight instead of volume.
@werehatrack
I always make my CCCs with dark brown sugar.
@werehatrack I think he’s probably right about all the science. When is he not.
Grandma made a lot of cookies. I think there had to be some sort of… Church potluck in there. I like them I like oats . It’s a lot of oats and… the only liquid is the butter and the eggs?
I think that’s intentional you kinda get a toasted oat and a lot of filler… Also entirely possible it’s one of those world war II recipes that went out to all the women and it just. Became a thing
@unksol
Yeah… Two cups of margarine is a s*** pot full!
@kittykat9180 @werehatrack I thought he was going to scrap the white sugar entirely and also go dark brown sugar. I can’t think of a reason not to.
But then he’s also including milk powder so no one can screw up the milk bit.
He’s writing a recipe anyone should be able to SUCCESSFULLY do… In the era of the Internet. Baking is always more touchy than cooking.
I do not know what gen z is up to. I want to say I could ask my sisters kids but they are not normal. They would have been cooking/baking. Not ordering takeout
@chienfou lol so is 8 cups of oats. It’s a LARGE batch of cookies. There is also a whole thing about butter vs margarine. I would use butter these days. But. This could have been anywhere back to the 1940s. Show me your Mama’s cookie lol
We did cookies in batches and sent boxes to everyone for Christmas.
In retrospect why my actual chocolate cookies spread and my mom’s poof is not creaming the butter correctly
@chienfou @unksol Huh. The vanilla pudding is something I’ve never seen in a cookie recipe, it sounds good. It’s somewhat similar to the mythical* Neiman Marcus cookie recipe.
*https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/neiman-marcus-cookies/
I love the brown butter chocolate chip cookies at Whole Paycheck
@heartny don’t have one of those. But a good cookie is a good cookie.