{"id":102,"date":"2007-12-30T16:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-30T16:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/2007\/12\/30\/102\/"},"modified":"2015-05-14T19:56:41","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T00:56:41","slug":"102","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"THE IMPORTANCE OF BURNT CHRISTMAS COOKIES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The photo below seems almost normal, but not quite. (Much like myself).  The subject of the photo is a plate of cookies, sugar cookies decorated for Christmas.  Most of the cookies look OK, but what\u2019s with those two ugly dark things?  Well, those are the undersides of some cookies that I intentionally left in the oven a bit longer than most people would prefer.  (The one between them is the bottom of an un-burnt cookie, for comparison sake).   <\/p>\n<p>Every year I continue my mother\u2019s holiday tradition of making sugar cookies with decorative sprinkles (and some walnuts, as I like cookies with walnuts).  My mother wasn\u2019t exactly a gourmet chef, and her stove didn\u2019t have precise temperature control.  So, she often let her cookies bake too long; there would always be a lot of \u201cburnies\u201d in the cookie tray.  But did that stop us kids from eating them?  Of course not.  If they were anything more than pure ashes and cinders, we\u2019d wolf them down. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not exactly a gourmet chef either, but I now have a two-layer cookie sheet that makes it easy to get the timing just right.  But nonetheless, every year I still get out an old flat sheet and singe a dozen or so.  Why?  Because it brings back memories.  I mean, not every cookie needs to taste just like it came from a professional bakery.  When you eat a burnt cookie, you get a mix of the bitter and the sweet.   As such, those burnt cookies are a good representation of my youth &#8212; in more ways than one.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/cookies07.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The photo below seems almost normal, but not quite. (Much like myself). The subject of the photo is a plate of cookies, sugar cookies decorated for Christmas. Most of the cookies look OK, but what\u2019s with those two ugly dark things? Well, those are the undersides of some cookies that I intentionally left in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5395,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/5395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}