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Joy of Cooking Snickerdoodles
Submitted by jillbert
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Is it possible that the Snickerdoodles recipe in the 75th Anniversary Joy of Cooking has a mistake? We have made it the last two years at Christmas and both times the cookies turned out very flat, overbrowned, and a little greasy. My suspicion is that instead of 2 sticks of butter there should only be 1 stick. Have any other ideas?
Snickerdoodles
It does sound as if 2 sticks of butter might be the problem, or perhaps there should be more flour. John and I have not tested the Snickerdoodle recipe yet, but we'll expedite it and let you know. Just for the record, all the recipes in the 2006 edition were tested by a professional test kitchen, but we have found that, frequently, persistent problems with recipes are due to errors in oversight or bureaucracy--i.e. the test kitchen would find a problem and report it, but the findings would be lost or overlooked along the way.
This is why we (the family) have decided to test all the recipes ourselves for the next edition.
Snickerdoodle Test
I just tested the Snickerdoodle recipe, and I agree--they were too flat. Not that I'm an expert on the Snickerdoodle, but they should be a bit thicker and more substantial. Mine were not greasy (I find that if I let my butter get too soft, my cookies turn out greasy--15 minutes at room temp softens butter enough to beat it), but the recipe definitely needs some work. I'm going to do another test today and add more flour, as it seems the flour to butter ratio is off. I'll keep you updated!
Test #2
Sorry it's taking so long to tweak this recipe. I did another test and used 2 3/4 cups flour--the cookies turned out much better. I'm going to do one final test with 3 cups flour just to make sure we've got the quantity on the nose.
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