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Tonight, we'll read the section on baking cookies from Women's Institute Library of

Cookery, volume four, written by the Women's Institute of Domestic Arts and

Sciences.

This is the same set of cookbooks,

Snusscast Bread Time episode draws from.

The Women's Institute was founded by Mary Brooks Picken in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Born in Kansas in 1886, Picken wrote the first dictionary to be published by a woman in the English language,

beyond the over 100 other books she wrote.

Let's get cozy.

close your eyes.

Relax your body.

Relax your body into the softness of your bed. Now take a few deep breaths. a few deep breaths.

Cookies are of two general classes, those which are made thick cookies are of two general classes,

those which are made thick, and are expected to be soft when they are served,

and those which are thin, and are intended to be crisp and brittle when eaten. Thin crisp cookies are usually

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