One time on Usenet, "merryb" > said:
> brickled wrote:

> > seems every time we make these, they want to burn on the edges, all the
> > while the middle is uncooked and more times than not the entire cookie ends
> > up "flattening" (appears the cookie is melting rather than cooking) out so
> > far that it just turns out to be a gigantic mess in the pan. the end result
> > is so far from what one would expect that it seems unfathomable that we
> > actually followed the recipe.
> >
> > it's the recipe out of the much-hailed "better homes and gardens cook
> > book" - we're following it EXACTLY as it is stated.
> >
> > it calls from 3/4 cups of butter - doesn't say butter or margarine so we
> > used the real thing. for some reason we suspect the butter has something to
> > do with it. the results were so bad i'm not sure it's accurate to blame any
> > one ingrediant.
> >
> > please help - my kids are losing confidence in me

> Do you have an oven thermometer? I would first check to see that your
> oven temp is accurate. Also, check the recipe- you would not believe
> how often errors/typos occur.

I'm leaning toward the oven tempurature issue -- I found that
my cookies turned out much better once I started using an oven
thermometer...

--
"Little Malice" is Jani in WA
~ mom, Trollop, novice cook ~