{"id":57,"date":"2008-12-18T16:43:38","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T00:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.wordpress.com\/?p=57"},"modified":"2008-12-18T16:43:38","modified_gmt":"2008-12-19T00:43:38","slug":"tricks-for-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"Tricks for Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shortbread cookies are popular at our household, on a lot of levels.  Everybody loves to eat them, and they are the easiest of all cookies to make.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_58\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58\" class=\"size-full wp-image-58\" title=\"shortbreads\" src=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/shortbreads.jpg\" alt=\"Scottish Shortbread, and Orange-Walnut Shortbread Squares\" width=\"460\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/shortbreads.jpg 500w, https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/shortbreads-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-58\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scottish Shortbread, and Orange-Walnut Shortbread Squares<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I also plan on making some tree shaped cookies with green frosting and sprinkles, and the dough is made and cooling in the refrigerator.  But I discovered I&#8217;m out of powdered sugar.  How can I be out of powdered sugar?  We have to go to the local auto parts dealer on Saturday to buy a battery for our snow plower, and I will remedy this powdered sugar issue.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_59\" style=\"width: 365px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59\" class=\"size-full wp-image-59\" title=\"endangered-cookies\" src=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/endangered-cookies.jpg\" alt=\"So close but, yet, so far\" width=\"355\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/endangered-cookies.jpg 355w, https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/endangered-cookies-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 355px) 100vw, 355px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-59\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">So close but, yet, so far<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Terry really wanted some cookies, and can be seen plotting her angle of attack.  She helped me take the cooled cookies out of their baking dishes and put them on a plate.  Her &#8220;help&#8221; consisted of me fending off her beak and retrieving her when she slid down my sweater onto the kitchen counter.  Despite her assistance I was successful in transferring the cookies to a platter.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_60\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60\" title=\"wings-for-shortbread\" src=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/wings-for-shortbread.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Will do tricks for food!!&quot;\" width=\"460\" height=\"687\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/wings-for-shortbread.jpg 500w, https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/wings-for-shortbread-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-60\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;Will do tricks for food!!&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>She has one trick, &#8220;Wings.&#8221;  When she was thwarted from climbing down the back of the chair to reach the table, she decided to do her trick.  We told her she was such a good bird, so pretty, so smart to do her trick, but she still didn&#8217;t get any cookies.  I&#8217;m sure we&#8217;ll be hearing from the ASPCA soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortbread cookies are popular at our household, on a lot of levels. Everybody loves to eat them, and they are the easiest of all cookies to make. I also plan on making some tree shaped cookies with green frosting and sprinkles, and the dough is made and cooling in the refrigerator. But I discovered I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}