Fruit sweet and sugar free - cookies

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Fruit Sweet and Sugar Free by Janice Feuer 1993 Royal Teton Ranch Cookies ******* Everybody loves cookies. With a crunchy or chewy texture and a burst of flavour in every bite, cookies are great, whether as a snack, as a dessert, or as a gift from home. And best of all cookies are absolutely simple to prepare and require a minimum of equipment and work space. They are a great way to introduce children to the joys of the kitchen.

Butter-rich or cholesterol free, here are the cookie recipes for everyone and for every occasion. There are recipes for cookies from Valentine's Day to Christmas and almost every day in between, as well as cookies to meet every dietary requirement from gluten-free to dairy-free to egg-free. There are recipes for cookies in a variety of colourful shapes and sizes to brighten tea trays or gift boxes or even Christmas trees.

Here are a few pointers for success wil cookies at any time of the year:

~ Be sure to preheat your oven before you begin and have all of your ingredients at room temperature. - Form perfectly shaped cookies with a #24 or #12 ice cream scoop. Scoops can be purchased in restaurant supply or kitchenware shops. - Whatever method is used for forming the cookies, for them to bake and brown evenly they must be uniform in thickness and size on each baking sheet. - When cutting out cookie shapes with cookie cutters, be careful to cut them very close to one another, to have as few scraps as possible. If you are careful not to use too much flour when rolling out the dough, you can reroll and cut more cookies from the scraps. However, each time you do this, the cookies will become tougher in texture. - For east in clean-up, line baking pans with baking paper. It is not necessary to grease either the pan or the paper. And when making a large batch of cookies, you can reuse the baking paper a number of times. - Place cookies 1-2 inches apart, depending upon how much the cookies will spread. - Depending upon how evenly your oven bakes, you may find it helpful to bake cookies on one pan inside another pan (referred to as "double pan" in the recipes) to keep the bottoms of the cookies from browning too quickly. This may also increase the baking time a minute or tow, depending upon your oven. Many stores sell insulated cookie sheets which are comparable to double pans. - Also depending upon your oven (its size and efficiency) it is best to place only one double pan in the oven at a time. This limit ensures good heat circulation so that the cookies cook and brown evenly from top to bottom. - Bake according to the recipe's directions, but keep a close watch during the baking of the first batch. The actual baking time will vary with the size of the cookies, the thickness of the dough, the quality of the ingredients, and the efficiency of the oven. - As cookies are usually quite fragile when they are hot from the oven, minimize breakage by letting them cool before removing them from the baking sheets to a wire rack. - To keep cookies crisp, store them in a container with a loose cover. - To keep cookies soft, store them in a container with an air-tight cover. - Frozen cookies keep beautifully for 2-3 months. They require just a few minutes to thaw.

(Some people prefer them while still frozen!). Submitted By JANE KNOX On 10-19-94

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