Monday, April 8, 2013

Eating Chocolate Chip Cookies with the Tangled Web Quilters at Their Thursday Night Bee


 
 Join Sarah McClure this Thursday night at her first meeting of the Tangled Web Quilters.  She's bringing her homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies and her Double Nine Patch quilt block to work on.  Don't forget to bring a snack to add to the goodies on the kitchen counter and all of your quilting supplies.
 
Sarah's Chocolate Chip Cookies
2/3 cup shortening (part butter)
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar (packed)
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1-1/2 cups flour (1-3/4 cup if you want a softer, rounded cookie)
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup chopped nuts
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
 
1.  Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2.  Mix shortening, sugars, egg, and vanilla thoroughly. 
3.  Stir dry ingredients together; blend in.  Mix in nuts and chocolate chips.
4.  Drop rounded teaspoonfuls of dough about 2" apart on ungreased baking sheet. 
5.  Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until delicately browned.  (Cookies should still be soft.)  Cool slightly before removing from baking sheet.  Makes 4 to 5 dozen 2" cookies.
                 from Betty Crocker's Cooky Book, published 1963
 
This cookie from the New England Toll House of Whitman, Massachusetts was designated by Betty Crocker as "The Best Cooky of 1935-1940."  They introduced it to homemakers in 1939 on their radio series "Famous Foods from Famous Places."
 
What snack would you bring to the Tangled Web Quilters Bee?  What quilting project would you take to work on?  Inquiring minds want to know!  Answer in the comments section below.
 
Just by commenting, your name will be entered in a giveaway for Marie Bostwick's next book, Between Heaven and Texas.  The winner will be announced on May 1.

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19 comments:

  1. i think i would bring my peanut butter chocolate drop cookies and for my quilting, it would have to be my embroidered butterfly lap quilt. i am loving how the butterflys are turnng out

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    1. Would you be willing to share your recipe for Peanut Butter Chocolate Drop Cookies? If you would email it to me, I will put it in a blog post. And I love the idea of an embroidered butterfly lap quilt!

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  2. I would bring some veggie sticks and maybe some fresh fruit.
    What to work on??? I am still trying to draft a pattern for the last book. (I wonder what block others are making). Of course, my + and X block quilt still has a few hours work left before i can add the binding. I could lug that.

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    1. Or you could work on one of your Followers Quilt blocks! That wouldn't be difficult to lug.

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  3. I would make my "World Famous Oatmeal Fruit Bars".
    As my take along project...I would probably bring my scrap 3/4" hexies. I am using my scrap 2" squares to make these hexies by hand. The hexies are then turned into flowers that are color grouped in clusters of 7. Once there are enough 7-fold clusters, they will be appliqued onto 14" white squares for a quilt. Tada!

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    1. Is your recipe for your "World Famous Oatmeal Fruit Bars" a secret? If not, if you could e-mail it to me, I will post it for everyone. It sounds delicious and healthy! And your hexies sound TINY!

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  4. A Victoria sponge for the goodies table, plus some Christmas Redwork stitcheries. I am including some blocks from the books read in this quilt, but as I like to piece by machine, they wil have to be made at home. Just finished the book, luckily the book I purchased also had the next two in one volume, so more stories with the same characters tomorrow.

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    1. If you would send me the recipe for your Victoria sponge, I would post it for everyone. It sounds delicious!

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    2. Mary Berry is the queen of baking in the UK. This is here recipe and it never fails. A Victoria sponge is a simple and traditional cake baked in two 7" round tins. It is usually sandwiched together with jam and icing sugar dusted on the top, but I prefer to add buttercream icing. http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/recipes/495936/mary-berry-s-victoria-sandwich

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  5. Is the block in this post supposed to be symmetrical? If so, shouldn't the four-patches on the right side be turned the other way?

    Depending on whether you wanted sweet or savory treats, and how much time I had to prepare, I'd bring brownies or artichoke squares.

    My takealong project is paper-pieced hexagons made with necktie silk. I don't have other handwork at the ready.

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    1. Nann, of course the block is supposed to be symmetrical! I can't believe how many times I've looked at that block and never noticed my error!

      I would love to post your recipe for artichoke squares if you'd be willing to share it.

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  6. I would bring my Redwork Birdie Stitches to work on. My quilting group was supposed to meet tonight, and that's what I was planning to work on. But we cancelled our get together due to snow. And I would probably bring Chocolate Chip Bar Cookies or something else chocolate!

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  7. I would bring along some Choc Chip Pecan Cookies & some redwork. I adore redwork & always have a redwork quilt on the go.

    Just a thought also but could we have a Facebook page or a yahoo group for this reading group, so that we have somewhere to share photos of our book quilts that we are working on. I would love to be able to see what everyone is making too!

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    1. I love redwork, too! I thought I might post members' recipes if you'd be willing to share your Choc Chip Pecan Cookies recipe. And thank you for the idea of a place to share photos of our book quilt blocks. Let me explore some options.

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  8. I would bring my hexie project that I've just started. I have to make 27 flowers of 19 hexies each. As to food, I'd bring my zucchini chocolate loaf to share.

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    1. I know people who love to work with hexies! I thought it would be fun to post members' recipes if you'd be willing to share your Zucchini Chocolate Loaf recipe. If you e-mail me, I'll post it.

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  9. I have just discovered some delicious gluten-free almond paste cookies. I first had them at a bakery and then found a recipe. YUM! I would bring my machine and some pre-cut pieces to sew!

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  10. Cream cheese cookies or my father's cheeseball. Yum! At the moment, my 'carry along' project is my paper pieced blocks that need the paper removed. Next step is embroidering names on the books in the blocks (Harry Potter: The Project of Doom quilt). Lots of hand work in my future.

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  11. I would bring something chocolate. I like trying new recipes, so it would be a surprise for me as well as you all. As for my handwork, I would bring some yo-yo's to make and some kind of applique.

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