Dutch Letter Cookies Recipe. 9 Essential Skills Kids Should Learn, by Leo Babauta. Kids in today’s school system are not being prepared well for tomorrow’s world. As someone who went from the corporate world and then the government world to the ever-changing online world, I know how the world of yesterday is rapidly becoming irrelevant. I was trained in the newspaper industry, where we all believed we would be relevant forever — and I now believe will go the way of the horse and buggy. Unfortunately, I was educated in a school system that believed the world in which it existed would remain essentially the same, with minor changes in fashion. We were trained with a skill set that was based on what jobs were most in demand in the 1980s, not what might happen in the 2000s. And that kinda makes sense, given that no one could really know what life would be like 20 years from now. We had no idea what the world had in store for us. And here’s the thing: we still don’t. How then to prepare our kids for a world that is unpredictable, unknown?
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Print. Thin Mints, after the Girl Scout cookies are gone. Timing is everything, right? On the day when a colleague showered my cubicle with a few boxes of my personal dietary Kryptonite -- Girl Scouts Thin Mints cookies -- a cookbook landed in my mailbox. Wouldn't you know it? "The Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook," by bakers Cheryl Day and Griffith Day of Savannah, Ga., contains a recipe for a soft, buttery and deeply chocolatey homage to my beloved Thin Mints. "Just like the Girl Scouts bake," promised the recipe. (The book will be available next week.) I needed to find out. The recipe was a little putzy (in the annals of cookie-baking jargon, that's one of my favorite words) but worth the effort.
As is the book. But first, chocolate. I tweaked the recipe in a few places. Also, when preparing the filling, the recipe requires four cups of powdered sugar. Another discovery: It's important to roll the dough as thinly as possible. Because this is an extremely rich cookie -- it requires, yes, four sticks of butter -- less is definitely more. DIY Ethernet RJ-45 UTP Cable Tester UltraCheap (Wall Mountable) HomePage. How to make milk chocolate peanut butter cups.