"Margaret Suran" > wrote in message
...
> Alex, I made the Chocolate Chip cookies, with Ghiradelli's 60% chips
> last week. The chocolate was really good, just as you said and I kept
> tasting it and except for a slightly too sweet taste, it reminded me
> of European dark chocolate, the kind I ate as a child.
>
> You were right about something else. While it did not matter that the
> chips were not as high as the one Hershey's or Nestle's makes, the
> chocolate, soft in the cookie when they came out of the oven, would
> not harden. I had to put the cookies into the refrigerator to get the
> melted chocolate to firm up.
>
> As I was trying to get the cookies into boxes, rush them to the Post
> Office to get them out while still very fresh and send then to the
> volunteer tasters, I completely forgot to taste one. (
>
> Two of the three volunteers have tasted them. They were received
> within forty eight hours of being baked.
>
> One said he liked them very much. He is very polite and wouldn't hurt
> me, so I do not really know.
>
> One said they taste the same way as any other ones I make. She would
> like nothing better than hurt my feelings, so they had to be at least
> marginally edible.
>
> The third one received the cookies on Wednesday, too, but has not
> bothered to open the box, so far. He has tasted my baking before, so
> that may be the reason he has yet to try the cookies. (
>
> Thank you for your help. Next time I will remember to eat one of the
> cookies. M

I think you ought to send your cookies to me Margaret)

I will test them for you)

Ophelia
Scotland