"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
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> On 2015-12-24 12:42 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
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>> I never had a problem before. Nothing clued me in when I made
>> the dough that it would be different from any other time. I don't think
>> I did but .... MAYBE I made a mistake when doubling the recipe. I'm
>> really careful, since baking doesn't come naturally to me, but I
>> can't say it's totally out of the question.
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> Doubling a cookie recipe has never worked for me. There may be no logical
> reason for it not working. It just doesn't.

Depends on what it is. I read somewhere that you can usually double a
recipe, but if you go beyond that, it generally won't work and you'll have
to amend the recipe. When I occasionally had to cook for 200, I would get
recipes from the library. No Internet in those days.