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     Title: Rigglevake Kucha (Railroad Cookie)
Categories: Cookies
     Yield: 1 Servings

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     4 c  Sugar
     1    Egg
     1 c  Butter
   1/2 c  Milk
     2 ts Baking powder
   1/2 ts Vanilla
          Flour: enough to make dough
          -easy to handle

MMMMM-------------------------DARK PART------------------------------
     1 c  Brown sugar
     1 c  Molasses
   1/2 c  Water
     2 ts Soda
   1/2 ts Vanilla
          Flour: enough to make dough
          -easy to handle

 Mix the light and dark parts in separate bowls. Blend the sugar and
 butter for both parts.

 For the light part, beat in the egg then alternately add the milk,
 vanilla and baking powder sifted with flour.

 For the dark part add to the butter-sugar mixture the molasses, water
 and vanilla alternately with enough flour.

 Break off pieces of dough from both dark and light parts, shape them
 into rounds and roll them separately about 1/8 inch thick. Put one on
 top of the other, roll up like a jelly roll and slice off the pieces
 as thinly as you can. Place on greased cookie sheets and bake at
 350'F until done.

 This is a cookie with a "laminated dough structure", that is, one
 part is crispy and the other part is chewy. It results from
 differential sugar crystallization. Ordinary sugar is readily
 crystallizable and produces the crisp part of the cookie (the light
 part). Molasses contains invert sugar and is crystallization
 resistant; it produces the crispy, dark part of the cookie.

 Source: "Food That Really Schmecks" edited by Edna Staebler,
 reprinted in Procter & Gamble v. Nabisco, 711 F.Supp. 759, 763 (D.
 Del. 1989) (alleging patent infringment of Duncan Hines label cookie
 by Nabisco ("Almost Home" and "Chewy Chips Ahoy"), by Keebler ("Soft
 Batch"), and by Frito-Lay ("Grandma's Rich and Chewy")).

 Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V3 #196
 Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 00:54:01 GMT
 From: Linda Place <[email protected]>

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