Sugar Cookies For All

I'm glad to report that my knuckle and finger are doing pretty well now. I have to go back to the orthopedist next week for a final inspection. I think he will say that my left hand is OK to  resume its normal life.

For the last few days I have cheating on the buddy-wrap bandage. I only wrap the two fingers when I think there's a real risk of straining my knuckle.

With Christmas just ten days away, I have a long list of things I'd like to do. It will all go much better with both hands participating

Tonight, I intended to make a quadruple batch of my sugar cookie recipe. I planned to take part of them to my former workplace for my friends who are slogging through the holiday season. And I thought I'd give my son a big plate of cookies to take to the post office where he works. They are slogging through the holiday season too.

I glanced at the recipe, did the mental math, and creamed some margarine and sugar together.

An octuple batch of cookies

Then I glanced at my recipe book again and realized that I had added ingredients for the recipe at the bottom of the page, not my sugar cookie recipe at the top of the page.  Uh oh. According to the sugar cookie recipe, I had just creamed enough margarine and sugar for an 8x batch.

"Start where you are." I reminded myself. I moved the cookie dough to a huge metal bowl I ordinarily use for bread dough. Then I made an 8x batch of my sugar cookie recipe. And let me tell you, that is a large quantity of cookie dough. The bowl of dough that is now chilling in my refrigerator is as heavy as a mid-sized watermelon (and as large as a small one.)

So there will be plenty of sugar cookies to share next week. I'll be able to send cookies to my old work friends, my son's post office, AND the neighbors.

I didn't strain the injured knuckle doing this. My little KitchenAid portable hand mixer did the hard work. I hope it's all right. It worked pretty hard.