Pistachio Cookies
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Ingredients
1 cup sugar
1/3 cup brown sugar
8 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 eggs
Vanilla extract
2/3 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup pistachios
100g dark chocolate
3/4 cup maraschino cherries
Equipment
Bowl, whisk, wooden spoon, baking tray, sieve
Method
Whisk the wet ingredients
Sift in the dry ingredients
Stir in cherries, pistachios and chocolate
Shape into dough balls
Press in chopped pistachios
Bake for 10-12 mins at 350°F /175°C
This is a family cookie recipe from Tim. These cookies can be made sifted finely or with rough cut un-sifted ingredients. Tim and Mike discussed how if the sieve represents the TP53 gene that makes the P53 protein, which protects the cookie from potentially harmful mutations, then the absence of the sieve leaves the cookie more prone to harmful mutations.
They also discussed the complexity and uniqueness of individuals; is a maraschino cherry really a cherry? What is the normal level of abnormality? And the challenges of statistics and fears around cancer and remission.
