Comments on: Duck Sauce Cookies?

By: Dan Trout

Dan Trout — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

If you hadn’t told me, I wouldn’t have known from the one cookie I had. Yeah, I could get the oatmeal, and the golden raisins, (thanks. I dispise the little brown, shrivelled, rat turd ones too! Same thing with me and dried fruit in general from those excuses for raisins. But then I discovered Heather’s dates. Not the California kind, but real Turkish and Lebanese dates! YUM!)

But the duck sauce? Well, there is something vaguely fruity that’s not the raisins, and some spicy taste that I at first mistook for cinnamon until the ginger tang hit me.

All in all, a fantastic cookie, and if I hadn’t been in somewhat of a hurry, and known that the cookies served a higher purpose, you probably would have had to chase me out of the kitchen

-Dan

By: Owen

Owen — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

LOVELY story. Who'd a thunk? I'm a really really basic cookie person - refrigerator cookies flavored with whatever I have at hand that I like. Gingerbread. OK we just used up my repetoire.

But I have been known to get fancy with the refrigerator cookies - like one side orange and one side chocolate then twisted into a yin-yang spiral.

Best part of your story by the way is the name!

By: Barbara Fisher

Barbara Fisher — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Depending on the brand of duck sauce, Dan, it is sometimes more or less obviously odd. But it does add a richness that is hard to beat. We still have some if you want to haul yourself on over and have a few....

Owen--I love to innovate with cookies. They were the first thing I really became expert at making--by the time I was twelve, I was doing most of the Christmas baking--by fourteen, I did all of it.

Even the family traditional recipes that I make now, have all been changed so that they are uniquely my own. The Snickerdoodles have lemon in them, the chocolate chip cookies have espresso and cinnamon, and the vanilla iced cookies morphed into rosewater flavored Cakes of Aphrodite long ago.

Every year, I try to come up with some new innovation. Last year was Aztec Gold brownies--who knows what I will do this year.