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[evlpez]

My all time favorite chocolate chip cookie is still the ever famous $250 cookie recipe.

Jan's Edit: I got this off the net the day I posted it, and later found that it's different from the recipe I actually use. I don't endores this recipe, so try it at your own risk. My original $250 cookie recipe is below in a later post.
Ingredients:

2 cups butter or margarine
2 cups granulated sugar
2 cups brown sugar
4 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
4 cups flour
3 cups Ground (fine powder) oatmeal
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons baking soda
24 ounces chocolate chips
1 8 oz grated HERSHEY'S milk chocolate bar
3 cups Chopped nuts

Directions:

Cream butter with white and brown sugar. Add eggs and vanilla. Blend together with flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder and baking soda. Add chocolate chips, candy and nuts. Roll into balls and place 2 inches apart on cookie sheet. Bake for 6 minutes in 375 degree oven. Recipe can be halved. Makes 100-150 cookies.


(I don't use nuts though, and I use light margarine with a higher water content; the cookies end up chewy and moist.)

[zymurgy]

Pumpkin Mania!

Ok – it’s just after Halloween, and pretty much everybody has a jack-o-lantern sitting on their shelf. Don’t let it rot! Use it! Make pumpkin pie! Pumpkin juice! Pumpkin cookies!

Here’s how:

Take that jack-o-lantern and cut it up into chunks. Cut off the soft part of the inside (especially if you used a lit candle and it’s sooty) and cut off the peel. Please be very careful doing this – cut fingers are not fun at all. Take your time, and don’t do this sort of things without your parents about.

These chunks, put them into a pot of water, and boil them. Cook them until their nice and soft, (can be skewered with a fork) and the color changes. Strain the pieces, and let them cool for a bit.

Now, pull out your blender and follow its directions to purée that pumpkin into a gorgeous yellow soupy mix. Of course, as you’re dropping these chunks into the blender, you’ll notice they’ve a good deal of fluid. Give them a slight squeeze to get rid of the excess. KEEP it.

So, now you’ve got a large amount of purred pumpkin and juice. (Not to mention pumpkin peals and nasty bits you’ve hopefully already been neat enough to get rid of.)

There are a million and a half recipes for pies, cookies, bread, soup and so on that you can follow. I’ll share my favorites in a bit, but in the meantime, let me tell you how to prepare some Perfect Pumpkin Juice.

Look at the fluid you’ve got. It’s got icky bits of stringy pumpkin and such floating in it, right? Strain it.

Now, pour it in a pot which holds twice the amount. Add sugar according to your taste, a few cinnamon sticks, some cloves, and nutmeg. Let it boil heavily for a minute. (Remember how I said the pot should hold TWICE the amount? This is why.) Strain it again, to rid it of the cloves and cinnamon sticks. Drink hot, or cool, or even carbonated.

(Since all amounts are variable due to there being no knowing how big your particular pumpkin is, or how many you’re using, go sparingly until things taste right to you.)

Above all, watch that you don’t burn yourself!

You’ve now got a (variable amount of) slightly cloudy brownish/orange liquid, which tastes amazing. Actually, it tastes like spiced pumpkin. It’s great stuff, and you can be a HP fan with pride!