Friday, January 27, 2006

Maple Curls

These did not make the cut into the new (1997) edition of "Joy of Cooking". They are earthy, yet ethereal, like tea fare for woodland fairies. I feel that eating crispy maple curls, filled with a cinnamon whipped cream, could possibly lift people up in some really meaningful way, but then I'm starting to realize I'm what some call a "foodie". If you're another, maybe you will agree. Either way, try the recipe!

I made these straight over the recipe from the old Joy (p. 668 in my 1964 Bobs-Merrill Plume paperback edition -- for anyone of you who prefer to simply consult your own copy).

Preheat oven to 350.

Bring to a hard boil for about 30 seconds:
1/2 cup maple syrup or maple syrup blend
1/4 cup butter

Remove from heat and add:
1/2 cup sifted flour
1/4 teaspoon salt

Stir this in well. When blended, drop the dough onto a greased cookie sheet, 1 tablespoon at a time, 3 inches apart. Bake from 9 - 12 minutes or until the cookie colors to the shade of maple sugar. Remove pan from oven. When slightly cool, remove cookies with a spatula, roll as shown on page 666*, and cool on a rack.

* My note:
While the cookies are hot, quickly and carefully wrap cookies, one at a time, around the handle of a woodle spoon, to form a tube. If they cool too much, they will become too stiff to wrap. Cool tubes on a cake rack. Fortunately, because they baked with 3" of space between them on the cookie sheets (which they really do need), there are only a few at a time to deal with!
Don't burn your fingers handling the hot cookies!

The cookbook suggests filling cookie tubes with a flavored whipped cream filling, a cake filling, or a buttercream filling, and dipping the ends in chocolate "shot" or ground pistachios.

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