The Cookbook Club meets once a month to share recipes from a cookbook off our library shelves. August's pick is Dorie's Cookies by Dorie Greenspan. This month we are celebrating the gift of Ron Borel - a cookie and library lover. Need more cookie themed programming? Come to the Borel Book-ie Birthday Bash on August 16 at 11:00 AM.

About the Book: "Over the course of her baking career, Dorie Greenspan has created more than 300 cookie recipes. Yet she has never written a book about them--until now. To merit her "three purple stars of approval, " every cookie had to be so special that it begged to be made again and again. Cookies for every taste and occasion are here. There are company treats like Portofignos, with chocolate dough and port-soaked figs, and lunch-box Blueberry Buttermilk Pie Bars. They Might Be Breakfast Cookies are packed with goodies--raisins, dried apples, dried cranberries, and oats-- while Almond Crackle Cookies have just three ingredients. There are dozens of choices for the Christmas cookie swaps, including Little Rascals (German jam sandwich cookies with walnuts), Italian Saucissons (chocolate log cookies studded with dried fruit), and Snowy-Topped Brownie Drops. And who but America's favorite baker could devise a cookie as intriguing as Pink-Peppercorn Thumbprints or as popular as the World Peace Cookie, with its 59 million Internet fans"-- Amazon.com.

Register for a recipe below or any recipe from the cookbook. We will email you a recipe and/or put a cookbook on hold for you. Please register so we know how much cutlery to have on hand. Please see info below from the public health department. Email mwillwerth@manchesterpl.org with any questions.

Recipes:

• Baby Buckwheat Bars - Taken
• Lemon Sugar Cookies (w/ gluten free flour) - taken
• Crash-O-Cookies (w/ gluten free flour) -taken
• Pain de Genes - taken
• Leckerli (page 56)
• Cocoa-Almond Uglies (page 140)
• Graham Cracker Cookies (page 209)
• Sunny-Side-Up Meringues (page 300)
• Crash-O-Cookies (page 365)
• Smoky, Cheesy Cookies (page 365)
• Puffed Grain and Miso Cookies (page 430)

How it works:

1. Register for a recipe below or call 978-526-7711.
2. Make enough to share (for about 5-10 people) and bring your own serving utensils.
3. Come to the library and be prepared to eat, share, chat, and connect over food. We'll be talking about what you liked or didn't like about the cookbook, how you picked your recipe, and if you modified it at all.

Per the Public Health Department:

• This is a potluck event, the food is donated and shared, it does not come from a licensed kitchen.
• The library is not liable for allergies but all cooks are encouraged to bring an ingredient card with their food so we can be aware of allergens.

Disclaimer: We cannot guarantee that there will be gluten free or vegetarian/vegan options as attendees will choose the dishes they will make. We will, though, have individual meetings that focus on various topics that may feature these kinds of choices.