A daughter of a good friend of mine has been posted overseas (sure you guys can guess were)living in a tent for 6 month's poor thing so I said I wanted to send her a (thinking of you parcel) I've put in so far a few magazines,some nice smelly stuff But I was thinking of baking some cookies but would they last that long,It will take a long time to get there remember any ideas will be most welcome smile
On 2003-03-06 11:23, peterboroughborn wrote:
A daughter of a good friend of mine has been posted overseas (sure you guys can guess were)living in a tent for 6 month's poor thing so I said I wanted to send her a (thinking of you parcel) I've put in so far a few magazines,some nice smelly stuff But I was thinking of baking some cookies but would they last that long,It will take a long time to get there remember any ideas will be most welcome :smile:
I think girl scout cookies would go down just as well, and hey presto, already wrapped up and should get there in one piece.
Long, long ago when the earth was young...my wife (then girlfriend) sent me some cookies from the US to the UK. It took about 10 days, but the cookies when they arrived were rock hard. Even the self-confessed 'hard-man' black belt Tai-Kwon-Do expert in our student house had trouble biting into them without cracking his teeth.
Now I'm not so sure that she's that bad at cooking so I reckon you should be careful. I think they were homebaked peanut butter cookies.
Better still, send some to me so we can test them to see if they go hard in the post... grin
When one of my close friends was posted to the middle east during the gulf war, I learned through trial and error that cookies were tricky to send. By the time the package has been bounced all over creation on its way from point A to point B, most homemade cookies end up as crumbs. I found that recipes that were more like candy than cookies handled the trip better... things like toffee and caramel corn. Anything with chocolate was tricky because of the chance of the packages sitting in very hot conditions while waiting to be delivered. The suggestion about girl scout cookies was good because they're already baked and packaged with shipping considerations in mind. Another thing that I tried to put in the boxes were little decorations or reminders of whatever holiday was coming up.. cheap and plentiful over here, but non-existent in a tent city in the middle of nowhere.
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When we moved from the US to the UK in 1988 we had very efficient packers, who packed the cookie jar before I had a chance to empty it of Duncan Hines cookies. When we finally retrieved it 7 months later, the cookies were still soft eek
Surely today's glut of Ziplock bags and bubble wrap could help? ...it would still seem advisable not to try chocolate, though eek