trick of the trades

i'm beginning to pick up the habit of doing the close work for baking just before bed. tonight, i've prepared the ingredients for making cookies tomorrow. i'm also going to try using an air-conditioned environment to make the cookie dough, because the american book says the dough for drop cookies should be properly cool before going into the oven. so we'll see how it turns out! if it turns out good, i think i'll do it for pie dough as well.

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