When you bake and store cookies, you can put an apple or a piece of bread in with them to make them softer or crunchier. Which is which?
Also, I put crunchy cookies made with Crisco in the same storage container as soft cookies made with margarine (sometimes I use butter). The crunchy Crisco cookies got soft and the soft margarine cookies got crunchy. Any clues as to why?
2007-12-05 00:36:49 · 4 answers · asked by lmsleigh1 2 in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
Put bread in with the cookies to have them softer.
By putting the drier (crunchy) cookies in with the moister (soft) ones, the drier ones absorbed moisture from the soft ones causing the dry ones to get soft and the soft ones to dry out and get crunchy. You need to store them separately.
By the way, Crisco isn't lard. Lard is animal fat. Crisco is shortening made with vegetable fat.
2007-12-05 01:18:34 · answer #1 · answered by Clare 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To keep crunchy cookes crunchy, store them in a sealed container by themselves or if you have access - a couple of those little packets of gel that removes moisture from things (you find them in shoes, etc). You can find this at a craft store or Walmart.
To keep soft cookies soft, a piece of bread or apple will work. Place it in the container and seal. The bread will become hard as the moisture is absorbed by the cookies. Eat within a few days of baking or the cookies will spoil due to the moisture. If you are shipping the cookies, do not add bread to container - put note in telling person to do that. That way the cookies will be less likely to spoil during shipment.
Make sure that the cookies are separated from the thing you are adding to the container.
Don't mix crunchy and soft cookies. As you found the moisture equalizes and the soft become harder and the hard become softer. Use separate sealed containers.
2007-12-05 10:58:37 · answer #2 · answered by ohiohillbilly 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
piece of bread makes them soft..... as far as the crisco... it is lard, totally different than butter or margarine..... the crisco cookies are pulling the moisture from the butter cookies... store them in seperate containers.....
2007-12-05 08:42:34 · answer #3 · answered by Miss Rhonda 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bread is supposed to keep the soft cookies fresher for longer. . . .Not sure about the other questions, sorry!
2007-12-05 08:59:15 · answer #4 · answered by ShouldBeWorking 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋