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Are you in need of Christmas cookies?
PLEASE DO NOT GO TO THE POSTED COORDINATES! YOU WILL NOT FIND CHRISTMAS COOKIES OR THE CACHE THERE!!!!! But you might find the ingredients needed to make them.
To find the cache, follow these simple directions...and if you follow this entire Christmas series, you might find some recipes for our family's favorite cookies too!
Our family celebrates the twelve days of Christmas...December 25-January 6. So we are still baking at our house for the holidays. I love to make Christmas cookies, but as a little guy in the kitchen sometimes it is confusing with all the measuring we have to do. Here are some examples of measurements that make me confused:
Why is it that a cook can get 2 cups of sugar in a pound of granulated sugar, but in a package four times as large the cook gets an average of 9 cups of sugar for baking? It must be something in the degrees of rounding!
Why do they add 2% cornstarch to powdered sugar? I have only 5% understanding of this concept! Period!
I learned that when working with dry ingredients there are 3 ounces which can be converted into grams which is almost the same as one cup!
I am sure you knew that there were 0 inches in a quart, but how was I supposed to linear measurement is not the same as liquid?
Did you know the average 1 teaspoon measurement is a sixth of an ounce, which is also equivalent to five milliliter? I think we need some new direction!
Remember...we just learned that 9 ounces is almost equal to one cup!
But did you know that when you are working with liquid ingredients there are only 8 ounces in a cup? Somebody definitely has their degrees of measurement off somewhere!
I hope it is okay to tell you that there are 4 quarts in a gallon, right?
And why we need to know there are 6 ounces in three-fourths of a cup, would you explain that one? But it is right on the DOT!
To add to the confusion...did you know there are 5 tablespoons in a fourth of a cup?
I guess it is the same reason you need to know there are sixty-four tablespoons in 4 cups, right? Who is going to measure that many TABLESOONS for a cup????
And who needs to know that 7 plus one more quart makes a peck? What is a peck? I just told you! ;)
I will never understand it all BUT...I do love my Christmas cookies...so off to the kitchen I must go...I hope you will join me as the days of Christmas continue...I have a lot of family recipes to share!