The Goldfish Chronicles

Starting to build some routines in my life. One of these is that every Sunday I bake cookies for the forthcoming week. I tried to bake back in KY using a family recipe, but everytime I tried they would be wonderful until they’d cooled down and then they became rock cakes. I haven’t found Golden Syrup in Seattle; and as the replacement for it (Karoo, or something like that) turns out to be pure High Fructose Syrup, I decided to drop the recipe and look for something new.

I looked at a couple of recipe books in our relatively sparse culinary library, but nothing jumped out. I briefly looked online, but there’s so much out there that it’s impossible to find anything. Then I looked on the side of the FMV Sugar packet and lo and behold, a cookie recipe that looked to have the important ingredients.

Since then I’ve made chocolate chip cookies twice - the second time I dropped the flour in the recipe from 2.25 cups to 2 cups. Tonight I made chocolate cookies, and they’ve turned out beautifully. The thing I love about cooking is having a feel for the ingredients and not killing myself about the recipe, so the cool part about tonight was dealing with a lack of brown sugar (replaced with white and a blob of molasses), and throwing the right amount of cocoa in (1/4 cup).

Delicious. Now to explain to the family next week when I fail to recreate them

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