Solarbird 
prank your friends with powdered salt! or your enemies it works out the same in the end
I found the recipe in a youtube comment so it could be one big troll but WE'LL FIND OUT
Now, I've almost never used vegetable shortening - I know Dylan hates it, but what's life without making a few regrets?
i wonder if this recipe means old or new tablespoons?
it's recreating something from the 1980s which implies old but
it's also a recipe i found recently so that means new
hm
discs I guess? Not the most even in the world but they really want to stick to everything
NOW I remember the other time I used shortening - for those cornstarch cookies! Which these now resemble, interestingly. I wonder if I should've flattened them more.
hm hm hm
i tried one a little early and still hot - you’re supposed to let them cool completely. it’s better than those cornstarch cookies, as similar as they ended up looking.
the tops look nothing like nilla wafers, but the bottoms, oddly, _do_.
they’re good! crunchy outsides, softer insides, maybe should’ve squished them more?
Anyway, I think they needed to be squished more. The other question I have is whether I should've sifted the flour _then_ measured, or measured the flower _then_ sifted. You get very different volumes out of those, which is why YOU SHOULD ALWAYS MEASURE IN WEIGHT YOU SMEGS but well here we are.
Others in the household more acquainted with nilla wafers tell me they do indeed taste like nilla wafers. The part that's really different is the centre texture being softer and the surface appearance.
Regardless, done in plenty of time for #monsterdon
it's cute
but underwhelming
i've never seen vanilla overwhelm another flavour before but that's what it did
probably work better if my wafers weren't so thicc
BUT THEY ARE
Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸@moira
I wish recipes were a little more sensible. I can follow directions just fine, but the measurements! Just standardize 'em across the world, please, with something intelligent and, yes, weight instead of volume...
That said, I'd love to see this nilla wafer recipe...
@moira
*adds note to smoosh them a bit before cooking*
*adds note to smoosh them a bit before cooking*
David@moira ideally you sift then measure. But in practice most people do the reverse. Also, supposedly most commercial bags of flour are pre-sifted so if it hasn't gotten packed down these shouldn't be too different.
ThatKomputerKat 
@moira *old or new* tablespoons? 
Wendroid 🇺🇦@thatKomputerKat @moira Wut’s this difference?
@wendinoakland @thatKomputerKat 15ml or 20ml. the us transitioned in the 1990s. australia is still on 20ml and I don't think is going to bother changing? i have both sizes. anyway, it's something you kinda have to watch out for ^_^
@moira @thatKomputerKat Interesting! I tend to do everything in metrics now, so I always assume USA recipes are 15ml. Ok, just did a quick lookie-uppie and UK metric Tbsps are defaulting to 15ml now. But Aus/Nz were 20ml??? UK was at 17.8ml previously…
John M. Gamble@moira @wendinoakland @thatKomputerKat
Wait, we did?
I have my grandparents' measuring spoons and recipes from the 1960s to '80s. But I also have recently bought spoons.
I need to do some checking.
@jgamble @wendinoakland @thatKomputerKat I don't know how official it was but I have old spoons (from here in Seattle) and the old ones are 20ml and the new ones are 15, I measured too! ^_^
@jgamble @wendinoakland @thatKomputerKat (I have been told, but do not know firsthand, that it was very official in commercial kitchens.)
@wendinoakland @jgamble @thatKomputerKat That's as may be but every modern tablespoon and teaspoon I see is clearly labelled 15 and 5ml.
@moira @jgamble @thatKomputerKat I just did a digital search, which said that the current consensus is 15 ml US & UK.
Because I measure everything as I go, usually by weight, I use the weight equivalence for liquids. Some aren’t 1 to 1 (like fats) but it mostly tracks?
Because I measure everything as I go, usually by weight, I use the weight equivalence for liquids. Some aren’t 1 to 1 (like fats) but it mostly tracks?
@wendinoakland @moira @thatKomputerKat
Hmph. I'm gradually adding recipes to my HTML files every time I use a new one, so it won't be difficult to adjust the ones I've been using. But it's still annoying.
@jgamble @moira @thatKomputerKat Agreed! Worth mentioning, if you get any recipes from the NYTimes, they’re notoriously bad at metric conversions. I always re-check their metrics, often shocked by their poor arithmetic or unusual assumptions!!! Just a word to the wise! ⚖️
@wendinoakland @jgamble @thatKomputerKat I bought a bottle of ... some sort of sauce I think ...? and noticed they included weight in US Customary _and_ grams and was very happy until I figured out to my cooking dismay that they'd translated _fluid_ ounces directly to grams and so the numbers made ABSOLUTELY NO FUCKING SENSE
trust nobody lol
@moira @jgamble @thatKomputerKat Ugh… You can, sorta do that in your own recipes, but it’s only equivalent with water. Sheesh! #Baking #Cooking