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   Solarbird :flag_cascadia: (moira@mastodon.murkworks.net)'s status on Monday, 12-May-2025 08:06:33 JST Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

   corn starch cookies what even are they

   #baking #cookies

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     Solarbird :flag_cascadia: (moira@mastodon.murkworks.net)'s status on Monday, 12-May-2025 08:59:13 JST Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

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     tonight on #monsterdon : COOKIES

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     Solarbird :flag_cascadia: (moira@mastodon.murkworks.net)'s status on Monday, 12-May-2025 08:59:14 JST Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

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     Thought about adding vanilla. We'll see if _not_ doing so was a good idea soon.

     #baking #cooking

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     Solarbird :flag_cascadia: (moira@mastodon.murkworks.net)'s status on Monday, 12-May-2025 08:59:16 JST Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

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     I'm wondering why a handle, specifically, and am speculating that perhaps it's specifically to mix more slowly, possibly to create this specific effect. It came almost out of nowhere for me, even though I could see it once it started to happen. (It's a _very_ quick changeover.)

     At that point, it's not really something you can mix anymore, including with a handle. So you kind of have to stop - and maybe that's why, instead. Maybe using a handle keeps you from overbeating the dough. I don't know.

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     and in we go!

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     Solarbird :flag_cascadia: (moira@mastodon.murkworks.net)'s status on Monday, 12-May-2025 08:59:18 JST Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

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     Now, what was I saying about the mixing?

     Yes. It's an odd combination. It goes from powder and very separate to a slow aggregation of large lumps in centre and very small droplets of dry dough balls on the outside, even stirring around the edge specifically to combine.

     But as you keep at it - particularly with some cross-bowl mixing - you see it start to become more of an aggregate, and then it _very quickly and suddenly_ jells together into a heavy, thick combined dough. The transition is startlingly quick once it starts.

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     Solarbird :flag_cascadia: (moira@mastodon.murkworks.net)'s status on Monday, 12-May-2025 08:59:21 JST Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

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     the dough feels like … halfway between pie dough and _play_ dough. very odd.

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     Solarbird :flag_cascadia: (moira@mastodon.murkworks.net)'s status on Monday, 12-May-2025 08:59:21 JST Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

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     ready for the oven!

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     Solarbird :flag_cascadia: (moira@mastodon.murkworks.net)'s status on Monday, 12-May-2025 08:59:22 JST Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

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     one cup corn starch

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     two cups. the recipe is very specific: combine with the _handle_ of a spoon. the process gets very strange and I’ll elucidate when it’s in the oven.

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     Solarbird :flag_cascadia: (moira@mastodon.murkworks.net)'s status on Monday, 12-May-2025 08:59:24 JST Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

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     beating it into butter, by which I mean mixing, which means we’re recombining the milk with a cream which has already been beaten so hard it became a solid

     cookies are weird

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     ends up looking rather like frosting once combined

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     Solarbird :flag_cascadia: (moira@mastodon.murkworks.net)'s status on Monday, 12-May-2025 08:59:26 JST Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

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     sweetened condensed milk is almost a pudding, so it makes more sense when you remember that

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