Baking

This cardinal was just one of the lucky birds who enjoyed my first batch of molasses cookies. From my cruising days, I remembered that the flour here in the US has less gluten than Canadian flour. Since I couldn't find any Robin Hood I decided that self rising flour was just what I needed. Unfortunately I didn't read the directions until after the baking flop. The cookies were awful, which is understandable when you think that the batch had the equivalent of 9 tsp of baking powder and 4 tsp of salt with the self rising flour. The birds actually didn't seem to mind but I'm not sure if they suffered from indigestion afterwards. For my second attempt, I used regular Wal Mart all purpose flour and it worked just fine.