Pleep Supervises Cookie Baking Marathon

Cookie production started out early this morning. Once the rolling area, decorating station and cooling zone were all set up, Ed cut the 3 dough logs into 6 pucks a piece. (Pleep named them pucks as he gets a big laugh every time he hears Ed tells Peggy to get the puck out.). For Ed, the process is really simple, get flour all over, roll out the dough until it's paper thin, cut out the shapes and flip them onto the cookie sheets. Then get on to the next puck.

Peggy claims that she has the stressful work: decorating, timing the baking which takes a total of 5 minutes a sheet. She has to turn the sheet halfway through the baking time. So every 2 1/2 minutes something has to happen. Then the cookies have to come off the sheets and get placed on the table. Thanks to Steve Jobs & her Apple Watch the timing process was much smoother this year. Then of course, there's the call from Ed for another puck. Sometimes Peggy says things that rhyme with puck when she is trying to coordinate decorating & turning the sheet in the oven.

About 7 hours after production started things were wrapped up, boxed up & cleaned up. About 500 cookies were baked and only a handful ended up getting "ALICED". Anyone who ever experienced Alice's cooking knows what that means. For those who have never had that fortunate experience, it means BURNT. If George were around the Aliced cookies who have been promptly gobbled up.

Now that all the baking is done, the bakers can head to the Shores Festhaus, aka surfer bar, for a few well deserved adult beverages and a bite or two to eat.


Peggy Heidkamp
Go Irish! Hotty Toddy! Go Packers!


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