The Best Recipe is rapidly earning a reputation as one of my favorite cookbooks. Tonight I made Molasses Ginger Cookies, using fresh ginger. This is a great recipe for the little helpers because they can roll the dough into balls and coat them with sugar.

The trick with these is to suppress the urge to continue cooking them until they “look done.” If you do, they’ll be crisp… not that there’s anything wrong with that, but I prefer chewy cookies.

I prefer to use parchment paper on top of my cookie sheets. It’s easy to pull the paper and cookies off to cool, then load up the pan for the next batch. When I cash in my vast BlogShares stocks, I will investigate the newfangled silicone mats. The silicone spatulas rule, so I’m optimistic mats may be a boon to cooking.
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