Don't Panic :) (Re: Help! I've done something terrifying!)

[meira_q <mb2910@hotmail.com>]

<<So what I need is a good cookie recipe that cannot fail. Perhaps a 
favorite cookie recipe from your grandmother or something.  :-)>>

Rachel, this recipe isn't English, but it's lick-your-fingers-and-go-
yuuummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm sort of delicious (and you can make it with 
cinnamon):)

The Ingredients:

* 4 cups of white flour

* 2 cups of sugar

* 1/4 cup of oil

* 2 teaspoons of baking powder

* 2 teaspoons of vanilla sugar

* juice of 1 orange _or_ 1/3 cup of milk

How to make the cookies:

You mix everything. If needed, you can add a bit more juice or milk, 
taking care not to make it too soggy.

There are two different ways to do this recipe:

* you mix sugar and cinnamon together and put it on the table, or 
wherever you'll be opening the dough, and you press only one side of 
the dough on the sugar/cinnamon mix, then you open the dough with 
those round things that look like wands (sorry, don't know the name 
of that thing in English *g*). you make sure to cover that thing and 
the work surface with flour or else the dough will stick :P, and then 
you take a cookie cutter and cut the cookies.

OR

* you open the dough on the floured surface (without the cinnamon and 
sugar bit), you cover the dough with jam, and you roll the dough. now 
you have the cookies, but in a long sort of shape, and you take a 
knife and cut slices, but not all the way down, just mark it to make 
it easier to cut when it's time to eat it. You then take egg yolk and 
you brush the dough with it.

(I reccomend opening the dough as thinly as possible, speciall if you 
do the cinnamon version, because it will be crunchier and yummier :))

now, this bit is the same whichever way you chose to do your cookies:

you pre-heat the oven to 180 C. (356 F.),
you take the oven tray, and you cover it with aluminum foil (this is 
a precaution that saves many hours standing and scrubbing the tray 
clean later:), and you oil the aluminum foil, so the cookies will 
stick to it as little as possible. 
you put the tray in the oven and leave it there for 10-15 minutes, 
depending on the oven. be careful not to let it get too brown. they 
taste nicer when they are dark-gold coloured :D
When they are ready, you take the cookies out of the tray and you let 
them cool before putting them in a closed cookie jar, so they will be 
crunchy, preferably letting them cool on something that will let air 
reach the underside of the cookies too.

if you do the jam version, you can cut the cookies all the way after 
they are cool.

hope you enjoy it:)
Meira