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breckenridge biscuits

I’m obsessed with my I bought a couple months ago, specifically about high-altitude baking. I mean, I read it like a novel.

The author-cook {} talks all about her trials with cooking at various elevations and I’m just over here nodding through it all. It’s been a joke these last few years to bake things properly, no matter what I try!

Well, I’m done trying to adjust my own sea level recipes. I’m all about following hers to the T, because they’ve been 100% successful so far.

These biscuits are now a permanently saved & hand-copied-onto-a-notecard recipe that I will always use here in Quito. They are just as fluffy-wonderful as they would be in Eugene, Oregon.

The author is incredibly thorough and detailed in each recipe, giving notes on elevations of 0; 3000; 5000; 7500 and 10,000 feet. My printable version will only show the 10,000 ingredients & instructions. If you live anywhere above sea level, seriously buy this book. And, no, the author has not asked for an endorsement nor even knows I exist. I told you I was obsessed. ;)

 

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high-altitude oatmeal chocolate chip cookies

For years I’ve tried to adjust my own “tried & true” recipes for high-altitude. They work so beautifully at sea level but at the elevation we live at, I can’t ever seem to perfect them with the suggested adjustments.

Well, I got tired of flat cookies and other issues related to living at 9800 feet (yes, that number is correct…oof). So I searched out a brand new recipe that someone had had success with. And is what I found.

It really worked! It was so fun having “normal” cookies to serve guests who came over later that day.  Now if I can just import in a suitcase full of chocolate chips, we’ll be good…

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P.S. Really do use parchment paper if you have it. It’s not available here (except sometimes in a fancy store for outrageous prices) so I used greased foil. It helps but the cookie bottoms darken quickly, so watch them!