BethNH's Profile

From: , NH USA

Joined: December 16th, 2010

About me: I've been cooking and baking since I was a child and collecting cookbooks almost that long. Years ago, I lost my entire collection in a flood and I've been slowly building it back up. I cook for my husband and three sons who are not very adventurous eaters. We're on the go a lot with sports and school schedules. I love to bake and my boys and their friends appreciate all manner of baked goods.

Favorite cookbook: King Arthur Flour Cookie Companion

Ginger Pork Meatballs with Cilantro and Fish Sauce from Dinner: Changing the Game

These meatballs and the dipping sauce were to die for delicious. Although there was a lot of chopping the recipe was easy to follow. Everyone loved it and we will definitely make this again. read more >

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Cook's Country
(May, 2013)

Cookies should be rated on taste and so they were.

Although I don't usually have problems with recipes from the America's Test Kitchen Folks, I had a couple of problems with this recipe. This recipe calls for melted butter to which cold butter is added to cool it down. Problem was my melted butter never even reached the temperature it was supposed to be cooled down to so I wasn't sure if I should heat it more. How do you cool down an 80 degree bowl of butter to 93 degrees?

Secondly, I thought two Tablespoons of dough seemed like an awful lot for one cookie so I checked my measurements with both my regular Tablespoon and my cookie scoop and measured out dough that was 2 Tablespoons. This did not result in the correct number of cookies and my cookies melded together in the oven.

All that being said, the cookies are pretty good. They are not as sweet as you'd expect a sugar cookie to be but they are very chocolatey. I'll have to try them again in a smaller size.

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It takes longer to preheat the oven than it does to make these biscuits.

The secret ingredient is .... mayonnaise. Really. While this does not make for a flaky biscuit, it does make moist and tender ones that are very good to serve with a meal.

The dough for these biscuits is very sticky and is dropped onto parchment paper. I used my muffin scoop and greased it well and it worked perfectly to scoop out 12 lovely biscuits.

If you're already got your hands full with other dishes in a meal, these biscuits are easy and delicious.

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