Peanut Butter Cookies

Class,

This is a group process. Work on this together. Use the comment session to record your conclusions. It would be good to not only record your answers but to, also, let your classmates know how you arrived at the conclusion. When you are confident that you have the recipe, send it to me. You are responsible for your own work.

Figure it out, don't look it up. This is an exercise on thinking.

Read all the instructions before you begin. You may use a calculator.

I encourage you to divide the responsibility in this project.

Here are some facts you need to know.

1 cup = 16 tablespoons

2 cups = 1 pint, 2 pints = 1 quart, 4 quarts = 1 gallon

A teaspoon is 1/3 of a tablespoon

Reduce the recipe below to measurements you can understand.

Ingredients:

1.        ¼ a quart of unsalted butter_________________
   
   
2.         The same amount of crunchy peanut butter ___________________
   
   
3.  0.0625 gallon white sugar _________________________
   
   
4. As many Cup(s) packed brown sugar as it takes to
   equal the amount of white sugar _________________________________
   
   
5. (1 isn’t adequate. 3 is excessive) eggs _______________________
6. Enough all-purpose flour to require 5 trips by these 3 birds. The birds are shy female birds. They never go anywhere unless all three of them travel together. Bird one is blue. Bird 2 has a beautiful song. Bird 3 is an orphan bird, raised by a kind family of Brown Tree Snakes:
   Bird one can carry ¼ a cup of flour.
   Bird two can carry 2 tablespoons of flour

Bird three can carry 6 teaspoons of flour _________________________________

7. 1  spoon baking powder ____________________________
   
   
   
   
8. If you start with one teaspoon salt, take away 1/8 teaspoon, then take away ,25 teaspoon, then take away another 4/32 teaspoon, you have the right amount of salt
   
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9. Bob used to be a cook in the army. He always takes regular recipes and multiplies them by 50. He says to put the whole box of baking soda in the cookie recipe.
                  

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Directions

1. This stuff rises to the top of a container of un-homogenized milk. If a team gets beaten badly, you might say the team got (this word)-ed When you figure out the word insert it here ______ butter, peanut butter, and the two sweet ingredients together in a bowl; beat in eggs.
2. In a separate bowl, sift flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt; stir into butter mixture. Put dough in refrigerator for 1 hour.
3. Roll dough into 1 inch balls and put on baking sheets. Flatten each ball with a fork, making a crisscross pattern. Bake in a preheated 375 degrees F oven for about 10 minutes or until cookies begin to brown.
4. Ingredients 1-4 are all 1 cup.