Posts by socalcookie

The problem was the flour. I made a new batch with different flour and the cookies came out great.

Wow, that's a short shelf life. I bought it a few months ago and didn't open it until the other day. The use by date is March 2011. Nevertheless, it does seem to have gone bad, perhaps from the extreme heat we had over the summer. I...

I always use unsalted butter. The only changes I made were the type of flour and I used half the amount of salt and soda. I'm wondering if maybe the flour is rancid?

A cookie dough I've been making for years with no problem is suddenly tasting salty. This happened twice in a row. I used unbleached flour instead of bleached flour both times and am wondering if the unbleached flour could be the...