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Duncan and Rebecca are in the first thoes of putting an essay together that is using primary and secondary sources.
At least that is one of the requirements of this essay: use both primary and secondary sources.
For his primary source, Duncan choose Elias Adams, the Pioneer, a book written by Catherine Adam’s grandfather and a primary source of the tale of a settler coming first to Boston and finally moving his family in a wagon over the plains to Utah.
The secondary sources that have to do with this time period involve the dispossession by Native Americans of their lands in Utah, a story that has a lot of shame attached to it, not matter how the story is spun. And those are the two stories that Duncan is weaving together today.
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Duncan baked some of that last night, when he choose to make banana chip cookies and that would be with mint chocolate chips.
Every time this cookie is made, it appears in a different form. Duncan beat the shortening, the sugar until they were so soft that I had no idea how the cookies was going to stand up to the baking test where it was to hold its form.
And then he made the cookies very small – that way you get more of them, he said.
I could not talk him into doubling their size. He is not interested in eating the cookie dough.
I don’t think any of it hit his mouth.
As well, this cookie dough is to be rolled in cinnamon sugar, but its consistency reminded me of the softest fondant I have every dipped.
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| ... the cookies ready for the oven ... |
Duncan likes to have the cookies cool before people eat them. Respect, he says. It is about respecting the person who made them and waiting until they tell you it is time to eat them.
Those are long minutes for me. I like the cookie when it is too hot to handle, and when the chocolate chips are so hot that they burn my mouth. Well, maybe I don’t like it, but that is the way I eat them.
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| ... my second time this week with this recipe ... |
I had an abundance of bananas and was always thinking of ways to incorporate bananas into food the kids would eat. Now the recipe feels like a heritage recipe to Rebecca and to Duncan, though I am not sure how long a recipe has to be in a family to take on that designation.
Anyway, once a good cookie recipe, always a good one with the banana chocolate chip drop cookie.
Arta
Hi Duncan, I have enjoyed many of those banana cookies in my time, but never with mint chips. Were they as amazing as they sound? If you are comfortable sharing, I'd love to read your essay when you are done. I am reading The Spawning Grounds by Gail Anderson-Dargatz. I am on chapter 7. It is fiction set in the Shuswap in the present day, in the Fall when when the Salmon run should be strong. The characters include indigenous and non-indigenous people (white homesteaders). I tried to learn a bit about the author, and discovered she has also written many words called Hi-Lo fiction. Have you heard of these books?
ReplyDeleteI think I will try her Search and Rescue Hi-Lo book next, about a young person going missing on a nature trail. Shuswap Search and Rescue are on my mind this year, seeing how they rescued on of my loved ones.
I loooooove that cookie recipe too.
ReplyDeleteI love how they puff up in the middle. I like how they are soft rather than crunchie. I don't like how many I can eat before my stomachs registers I am full.
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