Sometimes, I forget that some people don’t realize that nearly everything has a “method”. For instance, I was telling somebody at work about the Key Lime Meltaways from Smitten Kitchen and how I’d been wanting to make some several days, but things kept happening. First it was way too hot to be baking. Then I forgot the cornstarch during my shopping run. Then my husband got sick. So, I told her, “I WILL be making those cookies tonight.”
“They sound good… do you have the recipe on you?” “Here ya go.” But, she pointed out to me: “Oh. But you forgot to write down the directions, other than “reserve 2/3 cup confectioners’ sugar and coat cookies in it”.
Now, here’s the thing. Cookies are fairly simple, for the most part. If I don’t write down something else, here’s the procedure I follow: cream butter/sugar, add wet ingredients, combine dry ingredients in a separate bowl, combine dry with wet. This is my basic “cookie method”.
I’m a big fan of simplifying things as much as possible – but not too much – and using “methods” does that for me.
Unfortunately, it did mean that I had to write it all down, anyway…
