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Article: Baking sheets burn her cookies
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- December 1, 1988
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Q. My family loves cookies and I like to make them, but they
always burn on the bottom before they are baked. I use the oven
temperature suggested by the recipe, but they burn anyway. I don't
think it's my oven because it only happens when I use the thin baking
sheets. Can you help?
A. I think you may have answered your own question. Perhaps the
problem lies in the baking sheets you are using.
"Choose the heaviest available of the largest size possible -
it should fit in your oven with 2 inches of airspace all round,"
recommends Chuck Williams in The Williams-Sonoma Cookbook and Guide
to Kitchenware (Random House, $19.95).
The author goes on to explain, "The pan should have a lip on ...