\tI gave Kaitlyn a choice of things to do this afternoon after her judo lesson: go downtown and get her bangs cut while I get my hair done or bake cookies and then let Mommy trim the bangs. She chose cookies and me with a pair of scissors yelling at her. <\/p>\n
\tKaitlyn loves baking cookies. I love baking cookies in a kitchen with enough counter space to use one\u0092s mixing bowl and cookie sheet at the same time. I love baking cookies in a kitchen that has enough outlets that you don\u0092t have to drag out an extension cord to plug in your mixer. And I also love baking cookies in a kitchen big enough for a stand mixer; hand mixers are for the birds! (Or people with much stronger arms than mine.)<\/p>\n
\tKaitlyn\u0092s favorite part of baking cookies, aside from eating the dough, is decorating them. Decorating them usually consists of pouring thick layers of sprinkles on the cookies followed by me vacuuming the kitchen to get the pink and purple layer of sugar off the floor. Because I must not know how to use sprinkles and they never seem to want to stay on the cookies. Of course, that could be because of the sheer volume of colored sugar Kaitlyn uses.<\/p>\n
\tToday I decided to try my hand at decorating the cookies with frosting. I\u0092ve never managed to make it work. Maybe because I\u0092ve never really followed a recipe. Today I actually found one intended for the very cookie recipe I was using. Easy: 3oz pasteurized eggs, vanilla and powdered sugar. I whipped it all up and, what do you know, it worked great. I may even have to invest in a decent pastry bag. But we did ok using little spoons meant for stirring espresso. Kaitlyn\u0092s looked better than mine. And the sprinkles we used stayed (mostly) on the frosting. It was overall a huge success and an even bigger mess.<\/p>\n
\tAs I was cleaning it all up, I looked again at the recipe. \u0093Pasteurized eggs.\u0094 Why would the recipe be so specific? Oh…. because you aren\u0092t cooking the eggs. Just beating them silly. How would you know you\u0092re using pasteurized eggs? Well, let me think. The eggs we get here often still have feather pieces stuck to them. And I don\u0092t even want to think about what the other stuff is that\u0092s on them. (Someone once asked me if I wash my eggs before I break them open. Wash them? No. But now I worry maybe I should be.) I\u0092m usually annoying Bill because I spend a lot of time trying to pick the little brown specs of whatever-that-is from the egg after I\u0092ve cracked it open. Today I tossed the first egg I broke open because it had so many specks of whatever floating in it, I deemed it unsalvageable and just threw it out. <\/p>\n
\tSo it\u0092s a fairly good guess that our eggs are not pasteurized. And until now, I\u0092ve never given it any thought. I mentioned it to Bill (as he was eating his saved portion of raw cookie dough, also sporting raw eggs). He pulled out the egg carton and we started reading. Laid by chickens kept in cages. Good till 20\/12. Not a peep about pasteurization. Didn\u0092t the French come up with it? You\u0092d think they\u0092d use it. But apparently not. Well, we\u0092ve eaten enough cookie dough in the past 3+ years that if we were going to have some problem from the raw unpasteurized eggs, we\u0092d have surely had it by now. Bon appetit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I gave Kaitlyn a choice of things to do this afternoon after her judo lesson: go downtown and get her bangs cut while I get my hair done or bake cookies and then let Mommy trim the bangs. She chose cookies and me with a pair of scissors yelling at her. Kaitlyn loves baking cookies. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}