Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Salted vs. Unsalted

As if we weren’t getting enough sodium in our diet already, John has begun to salt his cookies.

Why is he salting the cookies you ask? His wife made cookies last night and used unsalted butter rather than salted. A little thing, you might think, but if that is what you thought, you’d be wrong.

The cookies’ texture looked different immediately and the dough wasn’t as good, but we explained it away with the fact that we hadn’t had them for awhile. But then the first pan came out, we of course sampled, and something had to be done.

Did you know a stick of butter contains 3/4 teaspoon salt? So we did the math, added some salt to the rest of the dough, and presto, Anzacs were delicious again.

1 comment:

Millie said...

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