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Peanut butter bars and Desserts From August 15th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: You know, we're really lucky. We were we Yeah, well,
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  Speaker 1: I mean to have attentive listeners who really want to
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  Speaker 1: find help us out. We we were talking about peanut
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  Speaker 1: butter bars at school lunch and how much we liked them,
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  Speaker 1: and it's.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of universal. Once we once we brought that up yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: we got tons of texts and calls about people all
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  Speaker 2: having love for the peanut.
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  Speaker 1: Butter There was somebody and there was somebody who said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you can actually buy them at and it
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  Speaker 1: was at some Yeah, Macy's had one that was equivalent.
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  Speaker 1: And then I thought there was somebody who said there
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  Speaker 1: was a like a school that actually would sell sold them.
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  Speaker 1: But two different people send us recipes for the original
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  Speaker 1: peanut butter bars.
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  Speaker 2: Is it the same recipes?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so one of them is from Tiffany Perez. He says,
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  Speaker 1: I was so excited when you guys brought up the
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  Speaker 1: school peanut butter bars. They are a favorite of mine
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  Speaker 1: to this day. Me and my friend Stephanie copied this
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  Speaker 1: recipe down in the fourth grade. Oh wow, and we
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  Speaker 1: are now fifty four. And she sent a photograph of
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  Speaker 1: the written copy and it looks really old. She was
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  Speaker 1: not lying she's had this.
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  Speaker 3: Recipe down in the fourth grade.
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  Speaker 1: I took a picture of the original copy. I've kept
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  Speaker 1: it all these years. I'll type it out exactly as
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  Speaker 1: written for you might be a little hard to read.
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  Speaker 1: The recipe includes vanilla peanut butter frosting. At my school
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  Speaker 1: we always had chocolate frosting, which is the way I've
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  Speaker 1: always made them, so it should be. Yeah. But so
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  Speaker 1: there's that one, and it's not particularly difficult. And then
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  Speaker 1: then somebody else, Darren sent us one. Here's the one
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  Speaker 1: hundred percent original Alpine School District peanut butter bar recipe,
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  Speaker 1: obtained from my sister's mother in law, who worked for
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  Speaker 1: forty plus years in the district lunch program.
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  Speaker 3: So how are they different?
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  Speaker 1: Now? Let me open this one is? Let me see
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  Speaker 1: so this this one, this one is peanut butter fingers.
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  Speaker 1: Both of them say margin butter or margarine. This one
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  Speaker 1: has so so Darren's had.
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  Speaker 3: I've bet in school lunch they were using margarine.
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  Speaker 1: Probably, oh yeah, because it was cheaper. Yeah, yeah, so Darren.
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  Speaker 3: And it's soft so it mixes easier.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, Gina, if you leave butter out, it
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  Speaker 1: gets soft.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to leave margarine out it's soft all
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  Speaker 2: the time.
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  Speaker 1: Uh oh, I don't know. I don't even open that.
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  Speaker 1: Let me open the right one here and we'll okay. So,
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  Speaker 1: so the one, the real old one that was written
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  Speaker 1: down when she was in the fourth grade, flour, quick, oats, sugar, egg,
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  Speaker 1: brown sugar, baking soda or as it says here, backing soda,
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  Speaker 1: peanut butter, butter or margarine, and then you grease the pan.
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  Speaker 1: Then this one it's the same. Uh yeah, pretty much,
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  Speaker 1: pretty much the same.
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  Speaker 2: It's margarine, brown sugar, peanut butter, salt, flour, white sugar, soda,
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  Speaker 2: rolled oats.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, this one calls for whipped peanut butter, whipped so
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  Speaker 1: that you can use it as a frost frost.
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  Speaker 3: So no, it really should be chocolate, yeah, whipped?
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  Speaker 1: Oh well it does? You use that? You put a
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  Speaker 1: layer of whipped peanut butter over it and then a
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  Speaker 1: layer of chocolate frost.
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  Speaker 3: Oh both, okay, I can get behind that.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, so that's the peanut butter finger ones.
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  Speaker 4: Now sister Dottie had a peanut butter bar recipe as well.
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  Speaker 3: That's true.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I wonder remember, you know she never put out
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  Speaker 4: a cookbook and I don't know why she never did.
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  Speaker 3: Because people would have bought that she yeah, she should have.
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  Speaker 2: Sister Dottie would bring us so.
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  Speaker 1: She couldn't convince Pat Bagley to illustrate it.
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  Speaker 2: Is that mister Dottie would bring us treats all the time,
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  Speaker 2: a fabulous baker. I have her brownie recipe because she
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  Speaker 2: made brownie once and gave me the recipe.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 3: But she also had peanut butter bars. It seems like
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  Speaker 3: she might have given me the recipe.
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  Speaker 1: I think she did. I think you have it somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: I'll bet if you look through your stuff you've got it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I have to look through and see.
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  Speaker 3: Hmmm.
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  Speaker 1: Well, anyway, thanks for taking care of us that way.
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  Speaker 1: It's really it's nice when people respond to that, and
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  Speaker 1: then they say, if you want to make them, here's
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  Speaker 1: how you do it. And neither of these recipes, I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure they're both good, and neither of them is very
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  Speaker 1: hard to do. Now, there's one other cookie that I
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  Speaker 1: keep thinking about that wasn't a school cookie. And I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if anybody will remember this, but I used
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  Speaker 1: to get them at Wang's Guards, the grocery store at
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  Speaker 1: five Points in auten and they were they were raisin bars.
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  Speaker 1: My mother used to buy them, and then I they
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  Speaker 1: sound awful.
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  Speaker 2: A raisin bar. You're excited about a raisin bar you
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  Speaker 2: can have.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's a good thing that you aren't. It's
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  Speaker 1: a good thing that you aren't a prejudice person against
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  Speaker 1: races of people, because you are so so so prejudiced
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  Speaker 1: about certain things like raisins. I'm just can't even your
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  Speaker 1: your small mind can't conceive of a raisin bar being
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  Speaker 1: a delicious eyed saying.
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  Speaker 2: We've been talking about the delicious peanut butter bar and
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  Speaker 2: and even entering the raisin bar into the commons.
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  Speaker 1: You you just you just you're right.
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  Speaker 2: Bill, I'm racist for peanut.
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  Speaker 1: But you are, you're you are a race just about raisins.
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  Speaker 1: You are at any time, anytime raisins are mentioned, practically
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  Speaker 1: you have something derogatory to say about them.
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  Speaker 2: It's Raisins are one of those things where if they happen,
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  Speaker 2: they're okay.
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  Speaker 3: But you don't seek out a ra Raisins don't just happen,
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  Speaker 3: all right.
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  Speaker 1: Sue found Sister Dotty's peanut butter bar. Oh she did, No,
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  Speaker 1: you meanw peanut butter bar? Or butter bar.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, it is different from the lunch lady ones. The
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  Speaker 4: lunch lady ones have oats in them Rolleder Quick oats,
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  Speaker 4: and Sister Dotties does not.
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  Speaker 1: Huh hmmm.
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  Speaker 2: I think we need a taste test, that's what I think.
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  Speaker 1: I found some recipes for old fashioned raisin bars, and
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  Speaker 1: they look spectacular. I'm not raisins.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think?
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  Speaker 1: What do you mean what's in a raisin bar?
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  Speaker 2: I just wondering if there's anything else in there.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's just a pile of raisins. Grandma's old fashioned
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  Speaker 1: raisin bars. It's a pile of raisins on a plate.
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  Speaker 1: It's all we had.
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  Speaker 3: Was kind of shaped into a Yeah, it's.
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  Speaker 1: All we had. You mold the raisins into a bar
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  Speaker 1: and eat them. Oh you could afford raisins. No, we
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  Speaker 1: had to make them out of our own grapes.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody says, my dad made raisin bars at Lehigh Bakery.
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  Speaker 2: I missed them too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they were delicious. They really are good.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's graham cracker crumbs instead of oats. Superior. I
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  Speaker 3: think I think I'd rather have the oats.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, me too. So that was the lunch lady recipe. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you want you want the Lunch Lady recipe.
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  Speaker 4: Don't get me wrong, Dottie's peanut butter bars were fabulous,
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  Speaker 4: But I want, I want to I want the oats.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you could do both, maybe do everything about that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, makeing peanut butter cookies like they used to
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  Speaker 1: serve at school lunch is really quite easy. And you
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  Speaker 1: need to have a fork to make the the design
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  Speaker 1: and I don't know why that is, but they would
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  Speaker 1: always make that fork design for some reason.
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  Speaker 4: That was the signature design and it's and it was like,
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  Speaker 4: I've looked up recipes for peanut butter cookies and they
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  Speaker 4: call for that.
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  Speaker 1: Almost all of them call for that design on them.
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  Speaker 1: There's probably what's the origin of the fork, but I
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  Speaker 1: don't think it has anything to do with anything other.
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  Speaker 3: Than you don't do it in any other cookie.
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  Speaker 1: Just a design. It's somebody will know. I bet if
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  Speaker 1: you google why the fork design? Why for why the
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  Speaker 1: fork design? Why the fork? Is there a design?
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  Speaker 4: Where is there a fork peanut butter cook I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. Maybe Nicole swears that changes the flavor.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe they have the tendency to bubble
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  Speaker 1: up at.
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  Speaker 2: The criss cross fork design on peanut butter cookies serves
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  Speaker 2: both practical and esthetic purposes. It helps flatten the dense dough,
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  Speaker 2: ensuring even baking and a crispy edge, while also creating
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  Speaker 2: a signature decorative pattern. The practice became popular after being
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  Speaker 2: featured in a recipe from Pillsbury in the thirties.
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  Speaker 1: And that is true. That is a really dense dough,
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  Speaker 1: so it kind of flattens it out a little bit
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  Speaker 1: and so that the edges will get crispy. There's a good,
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  Speaker 1: really good peanut butter cookie has a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: a crunch on the edge, but then gets chewier too.
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  Speaker 4: Well we oh, and now hear someone suggesting that a
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  Speaker 4: Sister Dottie cookbook that benefits the Pride Center would be great. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: we'd have to find I don't know where we gets.
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  Speaker 3: Have yeah, oh yeah, access to be they do the recipes.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe something to think about, all right, Yes, Nicole, you
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  Speaker 4: were right about the fork thing.