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Default I hate baking cookies!

On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:58:21 -0800, Dan Abel wrote:

> In article 0>,
> Wayne Boatwright > wrote:
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>> On Fri 25 Dec 2009 06:51:51a, Becca told us...

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> [snip]
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>>> Becca

>>
>> All god ideas, Becca, but making the dough is the *easy* part. It's the
>> various processes (depending on type of cookie) that I really hate. I also
>> don't like finished cookies that have been frozen.

>
> Throw a party! My wife does this. At church camp in the summer, she is
> usually the baker. Each week she needs to crank out 200 cookies for
> Wednesday lunch, which is brown bag. It's a two week camp, so it's only
> twice. Still, she doesn't like forming 200 cookies. So she has a party
> for the teens. She got a dozen last summer. She has a commercial mixer
> and two commercial ovens, so that isn't hard. She calls it a
> "workshop", and it's Tuesday afternoon. I've dropped in, and the kids
> are having a great time.
>
> She makes about five dozen each peanut butter and oatmeal, and the rest
> chocolate chip. There are 130 campers, but some don't eat cookies. The
> kids love the chocolate chip cookies, so those go first.


your wife is very shrewd.

your pal,
blake