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I forgot that today is the Mnstf Pool Party. It is one of the two (three, if you count Minicon) Big Deal parties of the year. I have been having unusually bad brain weather, and so keeping track of things like, Today Is a Day I Go to Work has been difficult. I didn't wake up until 9:30 p.m., and had to shower and red up the media room because Eric and Pamela are sleeping here to night, so I wasn't really ready to put on clothes and leave the house until 10:30 p.m. By the time I got to the hotel, it would be 11:00 p.m., minimum, and many of my friends will have already left. So, I've decided to stay at home and drink beer and eat nachos.

I'm really angry about this, but there's no one to be angry _at_. It was no one's job to remind me, and no one's job to make me make plans, and I forgot, and I didn't make plans, and I haven't seen my Mnstf friends in forever, and I'm just really sad and pissed.

Possibly it will be more than one beer.

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From:

lydy

My portioning for the first go was pretty terrible, too. The second round was much more even. My excuse for the first round was that I was experimenting with sizes to see what works best. Answer: pretty much all the sizes were fully cooked and very edible, but some were uglier than others. I do think that eleven or twelve minutes might be better than ten minutes, this last batch seemed just a trifle underdone.

As for folding, I just used a spatula and stirred gently until it was uniform in color. This did not seem to beat out too much of the air. I seem to recall my mother stopping when the batter was still a bit streaky, which may be why I remember higher peaks on the cookies than I achieved on mine. Either way, so delicious. It's like the good parts of a brownie, and only the good parts.

Let me know how further experiments go.

From:

thewayne

When I bake from online recipes, I add 10 degrees and 2-3 minutes, as I did with this one. And I had no idea what a 'done' cookie would look like, since I'd never done a meringue cookie before! We let them sit for about 15 minutes before trying peeling them off the parchment paper, should have given them half an hour as the ones that sat longer peeled no problem. But they were still slightly under-done, should have taken the bake time to about 14 minutes. But they tasted marvelous!