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An Emergency Physician Shares Cookie Recipes, Trauma Strap Bags, and Stories from the ER
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Brown Butter Sourdough Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Summary: I have been baking sourdough ever since the start of Covid. I have tried many recipes using sourdough discard, including cookie recipes, and have not been really pleased with any of them. That said, these are really good. I think Amy came up with a great combination to deal with the extra water contained in the discard. She browns the butter, which removes a lot of the water, and uses only the yolk of the egg. Chilling the dough and baking at a relatively high temperature and with convection makes them cook and brown quickly on the outside, while…
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Cinnamon Toffee Cookies
Most home-made cookies end up kind of uneven and irregular, even if they are carefully formed with a scoop. There are a few cookies that I make where, if carefully scooped, they come out almost completely uniform in shape and appearance. Snickerdoodles and Taku Ginger Cookies come to mind. I can now add another cookie to that list, Christina Tosi’s Cinnamon Toffee Cookies, at least the way I made them. When she says “cinnamon,” she really means it. These have a tablespoon of cinnamon to less than two cups of flour so they are really cinnamony. The original recipe calls…
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Metal in the Eye
A 31-year-old woman came in with right eye pain, decreased vision and light sensitivity for eleven days. She had been pounding a screw driver with a hammer to try to open a lock. As she did so, a piece of metal broke off and hit her in the eye. She experienced a lot of pain and could see blood inside her eye. It was not clear why she had not sought care earlier or why she finally came in. Her vision was decreased in the right eye and I could see a hole through the iris (colored part). An x-ray…
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Speculoos-Stuffed Oreo Christmas Sprinkle Cookies
Here is what I said in my posting for Cookies and Cream Pudding Cookies about using Oreos in homemade cookies: I had a bit of a hard time trying these because it just doesn’t make any sense, really, to buy lousy cookies, crush them and put them in your home made cookies, which you hope will be delicious. I was successful here but, next time, I will just try them with chocolate chips and see if they are as good. If you don’t want them for Christmas, you can just roll them in large sugar crystals. (See below.) Recipe By: Good…
