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Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Bake Up Some Cookies For Family Fun

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By Lourdes Mane






There are plenty of reasons folks are baking with their children nowadays. The toothsome result is naturally on the list. But as significantly, baking with youngsters is a great way to spend some time with them and to teach them things at the same time you are all having fun.




Baking homemade cookies with any or all of your kids is a naturally enjoyable activity. Cookies are portable, exciting and enjoyable to make. They can be made in stages if time is tight-prepare the dough in the evening and bake them the next morning. Older children can read the recipe and direct adults on what steps to follow. Youngsters can roll the dough into balls and flatten it with a fork, like making peanut butter cookies. There's enough fun to go around for everyone.

What makes your cookies even better is to add corn starch to the dough. In fact , many recipes for baked products from the early 20th century used corn starch together with flour. Bakers found terribly early on that corn starch gave biscuits, muffins, cakes, shortcakes, pie crusts and most significantly cookies a finer texture and tenderer crumb when compared to recipes using flour alone. Recipe books produced then by the experts at Argo and Kingsford's Corn Starch bear this out. In reality Argo, established in 1892, has offered their clients cookie recipes since its awfully early years.

Here's a recipe for Lemon Shortbread Cookies that's simple and mouth-watering and should make for a bunch of family fun.



Lemon Shortbread Cookies



11/3 cups Argo or Kingsford's Corn Starch

2 cups butter or margarine

2/3 cup ground sugar

1 little spoon finely shredded lemon peel

1/2 spoon vanilla

2 cups all-purpose flour

Makes six dozen

Heat the stove to 350F. In a giant bowl, beat butter till slipped. Add milled sugar, beat until well combined. Add lemon peel and vanilla; beat well. In a medium bowl, stir together flour and corn starch; add to mix and beat well.

Roll dough into 1-inch balls (children will love this). Place on ungreased cookie sheets. Press tines of a fork atop each ball to make subtle design. Bake about 15 minutes or till bottoms are slightly browned. Cool on wire racks.



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