Frazz by Jef Mallett for May 13, 2013

Gross! People actually eat food that comes in a plastic bag and sits on the shelf for several weeks, or even months?

Hydrox, baby.

@Alexikakos

Some years ago I read about an interesting cookbook (couldn’t afford to buy it at the time, but have always thought it was a great concept.) The author was a chemist and a mom, and she analyzed popular commercial products, such as Oreos, to determine how they were made. She then produced recipes for the home kitchen, wherewith the rest of us could make our own “Oreos.” It was a shock to me to discover that the iconic Oreo filling consisted of little more than shortening and sugar. Can’t recall what any of the other recipes were.

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In your recipe above, does the extra 1 cup of sifted flour just go back into the canister?

Sorry little girl.

An interesting thing I learned while in management at a supermarket… Many of the ‘store brands’ are actually made by the normal companies that make the items. They’re just packaged differently. For example, one very large state bakery makes their own bread and the store brand, as well. While I do say ‘many’, I didn’t personally know of any exceptions.

I would bet that if her mother had saved an Oreos package & put the store-brand cookies inside it she would never have known the difference.

When I was about 8 I remember actually reading the face of the “Oreos” my mom bought, only to discover that they were a cheap generic brand, suddenly, they tasted terrible, my mom refused to buy the name brand though, so after that she just kind of stopped buy sandwich cookies altogether

One cup of peanut butter, one cup of sugar, one egg, 350 for about ten minutes. Add a tbl of flour or so if you want to but you don’t have to. A peanut butter cookie that actually tastes like peanut butter. (Although, sad to say, it doesn’t work with the peanuts-only type that is better for you.)

Annieb1012, I would assume so

Oh the brand can make a difference! I had a college roomie who could eat store brand but NOT GM honey nut Cheerios, she was allergic to tree nuts, and the store brand used peanuts, GM uses almonds.