tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7157527.post116459572586385286..comments2023-07-24T11:50:34.446-04:00Comments on my little kitchen: Mondays with Maida - Rum-Raisin ShortbreadCathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11194828903719000019noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7157527.post-1165782991393679632006-12-10T15:36:00.000-05:002006-12-10T15:36:00.000-05:00Hello Cathy!My name is BENGİSU.I am from Türkiye(T...Hello Cathy!My name is BENGİSU.I am from Türkiye(Turkey).I love your blog.Thanks your descriptions.Bye.see you later.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7157527.post-1165552012117601312006-12-07T23:26:00.000-05:002006-12-07T23:26:00.000-05:00Hi Kat! They were good and very easy. I don't thi...Hi Kat! They were good and very easy. I don't think you'll have any trouble with these!Cathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11194828903719000019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7157527.post-1165434722089218392006-12-06T14:52:00.000-05:002006-12-06T14:52:00.000-05:00Wow, those look so good! They look easy enough to ...Wow, those look so good! They look easy enough to make. For some reason, every time i try to make any type of cookies, it never comes out right. I'll try these and let ya know how it works out! Thanks. :p<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.appliancejournal.com" REL="nofollow">-Kat</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7157527.post-1165033399814041902006-12-01T23:23:00.000-05:002006-12-01T23:23:00.000-05:00Hi Rowena! hmmm... I doubt it'd be a crime and it...Hi Rowena! hmmm... I doubt it'd be a crime and it'd probably be really good, but I'm having trouble imagining it. I feel like the texture of these cookies is their greatest attribute and I just wonder if a topping would somehow detract from that. But it's probably worth at least one try!<BR/><BR/>Hi Mari! You know I ran across that site eons ago (since I google Maida Heatter on occasion), so I had read the interview before... but I had not noticed or at least remembered the offer to forward messages to her. I'm going to have to take them up on that!Cathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11194828903719000019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7157527.post-1165017778895885362006-12-01T19:02:00.000-05:002006-12-01T19:02:00.000-05:00Hey Cathy, I just found a site that I KNOW you'll ...Hey Cathy, I just found a site that I KNOW you'll love: http://www.foodies.com/index.html. Although I wouldn't be surprised if you knew about it already. And look who's on the home page!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7157527.post-1164955716290140862006-12-01T01:48:00.000-05:002006-12-01T01:48:00.000-05:00Oooh...anything with rum and raisins is fine by me...Oooh...anything with rum and raisins is fine by me. I like Laura's idea to go with golden raisins. Would it be a crime if I drizzled it with dark chocolate? Hmmmm.... ;-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7157527.post-1164773140585418022006-11-28T23:05:00.000-05:002006-11-28T23:05:00.000-05:00Hi Mari! The raisins are supposed to be soaked fo...Hi Mari! The raisins are supposed to be soaked for at least a couple of hours in half a cup of dark run. I soaked them overnight. When I drained the raisins, I think there was about a quarter cup of rum, so a quarter cup or so went into the cookies. I was actually (pleasantly) surprised that the rum flavor was rather subtle.<BR/><BR/>Hi Brilynn! I know how that is... though it seems for me it's an episode of Seinfeld, rather than a memory, that is typically recalled :)<BR/><BR/>Hi Yvonne! Maida recommends wrapping each cookie in cellophane, and I expect that along with some careful packing would make them shippable. Even though they melt in your mouth and Maida cautions that they're delicate, I found they were at least sturdy enough so that they didn't break or crumble moving them from the pan to the rack and then from the rack to the storage box, nor did they break in transit to my office.<BR/><BR/>Oh, I'm so sorry to hear you had trouble with the sugar cookies - did you make the Plain Old Fashioned Sugar Cookies or the Cornell Sugar Cookies? I've not yet tried the Cornell ones, but I've always had good luck with the Old Fashioned ones. I'll watch for your post!Cathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11194828903719000019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7157527.post-1164730818903831302006-11-28T11:20:00.000-05:002006-11-28T11:20:00.000-05:00Hi Cathy,Great post! You create with wizardry.My s...Hi Cathy,<BR/><BR/>Great post! You create with wizardry.<BR/><BR/>My sister wants shorbread cookies but to me they seem too fragile to send.<BR/><BR/>Do you think these will be sturdy enough to make it through the mail?<BR/><BR/>And do you think these will taste just as good without raisins? <BR/><BR/>Thank-you.<BR/><BR/>Yvonne<BR/><BR/>P.S. Soon I am going to blog about making Maida's sugar cookies, and what went wrong, and I what I tried to do to remedy them. This experiment was upon your recommendation, but the results proved counter to my skill.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7157527.post-1164726516793614412006-11-28T10:08:00.000-05:002006-11-28T10:08:00.000-05:00I used to work in an ice cream store and always ha...I used to work in an ice cream store and always had people asking for rum raisin ice cream (we didn't sell it so this was just annoying). Now rum raisin anything always makes me think of that.Brilynnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14417842674245229914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7157527.post-1164684930474700382006-11-27T22:35:00.000-05:002006-11-27T22:35:00.000-05:00Those cookies look tres yummy. I'm kind of crazy w...Those cookies look tres yummy. I'm kind of crazy when it comes to alcohol in my cookies. I usually go beyond infusing them with the flavor, but killing them with it. I know, it's probably stupid. I'm curious: Does the recipe call for just adding the rum, or, does it call for soaking the raisins overnight in the rum?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7157527.post-1164657664991893102006-11-27T15:01:00.000-05:002006-11-27T15:01:00.000-05:00Hi Laura! I'm not sure... I guess I might try mak...Hi Laura! I'm not sure... I guess I might try making a few small ones and see how they turn out. I don't know why I'm timid about making this particular cookie smaller - perhaps because of the raisins. They really were good!Cathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11194828903719000019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7157527.post-1164648876027093562006-11-27T12:34:00.000-05:002006-11-27T12:34:00.000-05:00Now that you have made them do you think you would...Now that you have made them do you think you would make them smaller next time? They sound divine.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com