tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-19:99582rikibethrikibethrikibeth2012-07-22T00:59:14Ztag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-19:99582:463259A fic recommendation, and a recipe2012-07-22T00:59:14Z2012-07-22T00:59:14Zpublic4First of all, if you like the Avengers at ALL, and you need a good laugh, you need to read this fic, by scifigirl47:<br /><br /><a href="http://archiveofourown.org/works/417073">Phil Coulson Does Not Bake (and The Avengers Do Not Shop At IKEA Anymore)</a><br /><br />Summary:<br /><br />Sometimes Tony Stark makes poor choices. Sometimes Tony pushes his teasing of Steve Rogers just a little too far. Sometimes Steve decides he's had enough.<br /><br />Phil Coulson's the one who's got to write this nonsense up, and he does not bake.<br /><br />I can pretty much guarantee you that by the end of the fic, <em>you will be craving cookies</em>.<br /><br />Here is how you go about solving that:<br /><br />7 1/2 cups all purpose flour<br />2 Tbsp baking soda<br />4 tsp ginger<br />2 tsp cinnamon<br />1 tsp ground cloves<br /><br />3/4# (3 sticks) unsalted butter<br />4 cups brown sugar (packed)<br />4 eggs<br />1 cup molasses<br />2 tsp vanilla<br /><br />1 14.5 oz jar lingonberry jam<br /><br />About a cup of granulated sugar in a little bowl<br /><br />(I know the story says loganberry. IKEA sells <em>lingonberry</em> jam, not loganberry. I got mine at Whole Foods, though.)<br /><br />You know how to make cookie dough, right? Preheat the oven to 350F. You sift everything in that first batch of ingredients together. You take the butter and sugar and cream them together (stand mixer, handheld mixer, a wooden spoon if you're really dedicated and you don't have some sort of electric mixer) and then mix in the eggs and vanilla and molasses. Then you mix in the dry stuff.<br /><br />This recipe is for thumbprint cookies. 8 dozen of them. Adjust your recipe accordingly if you don't need eight dozen cookies right now.<br /><br />If you really don't know how to make thumbprint cookies: roll some of the dough into a little ball. Smaller than a golf ball, smaller than a ping-pong ball -- a Superball is about right. Then, and this is important for this flavor, roll that Superball in granulated sugar and put it on your cookie sheet. (Use your favorite method of making cookies not stick. I use baking parchment.) Leave plenty of space between the cookies -- they spread. A LOT. When your baking sheet is full (expect to only fit a dozen) poke a depression in each cookie with your thumb. Fill that depression with jam. A piping bag doesn't really give much advantage over a spoon, in this case -- I did both.<br /><br />Bake 12 minutes at 350F. Let the cookies cool for about two minutes on the sheets, then slide the paper or foil off the hot sheets and get it onto a cooler surface, and then after another few minutes lift the cookies off with a spatula and get them onto a wire rack. You DO NOT want these cookies to overbake or have too much carryover cooking from the hot cookie sheets, because you want them chewy, and if they go too long they will be crunchy.<br /><br />Here is <a href="http://plushteamdelta.tumblr.com/">Plush Team Delta</a> re-enacting a scene from the story:<br /><br /><br /><br /><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7jee99rFp1rbbaa4o1_500.jpg" /><br /><br />Go forth, read, and bake!<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=rikibeth&ditemid=463259" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments