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[sam_gamgee]

I spent most of my afternoon and evening in the kitchen. First, I decided to bake another batch of chocolate chip cookies, this time for my grandmother.

I also ended up making a batch of Vinegar Cookies (because the recipe intrigued me - vinegar isn't an ingredient that normally comes to mind when you think of making cookies.) But they turned out really well - a little crispier than I was expecting, but still very yummy.

And I also made a cake for our Labor Day picnic/Grammy's birthday celebration - which I'll have to re-icing tomorrow when I get home from work, since I made too little icing (she's not a big fan of icing, so I was trying to go for less, but even though the cake is completely covered, it's still a little too little.)

So, all in all, I made eight dozen cookies (five chocolate chip, three vinegar) and a two layer cake. Recipes for the second two items below.

Vinegar Cookies

INGREDIENTS
1 cup butter, softened
1 cup white sugar
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon distilled white vinegar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup chopped walnuts (optional)

DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (170 degrees C).
Cream butter or margarine and sugar. Add other ingredients. Drop by teaspoon on lightly greased cookie sheet.
Bake for 18-20 minutes.

Makes 3 dozen.

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Grammy's Chocolate Cake

Ingredients
3/4 Cup butter
1 3/4 Cup white sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 Cups all-purpose flour
3/4 Cup Hersey's cocoa
1 1/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/3 Cups water

Directions
Mix butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
Add eggs and vanilla, beat 1 minute at medium speed.
Combine flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt in separate dish.
Add alternately with water to sugar mixture.
Pour batter into 2 greased and floured cake pans. (Though, if you put wax paper in the bottom, they come out just as easily.)
Bake at 350 degrees - 35-40 minutes for 8" pans, 30-35 minutes for 9" pans.
Cool ten minutes before removing from pans. (Take wax paper off while still warm.)
Cool completely before icing.

Icing:
2 Cups powdered sugar
3/4 Cup butter, softened
1 tsp vanilla extract
milk - little bit at a time

Mix sugar, vanilla, and butter in bowl, slowly adding milk as necessary. (It shouldn't be runny and extra powdered sugar can be added if necessary, but it isn't a cure-all for too much milk.)

Comments

[mashfanficchick.livejournal.com]

Wow, I thought John's family's cookie recipe was the only one that had vinegar in it! And it's for a completely different reason: in that one, the recipe calls for curdled milk, to be made by combining a cup (I think; I don't have the recipe at hand) of milk with (again, I think) a teaspoon of white vinegar. Then the mixture is put into the recipe.

I like cookies. :-)