{"id":140,"date":"2014-12-15T14:10:51","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T14:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discontinuity.ca\/?p=140"},"modified":"2015-01-09T14:24:16","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T14:24:16","slug":"potato-cookie-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discontinuity.ca\/?p=140","title":{"rendered":"Potato Cookie Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/discontinuity.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/potatoCookiePress.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-141 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/discontinuity.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/potatoCookiePress-295x300.jpg\" alt=\"Cookie press made out of a potato\" width=\"295\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/discontinuity.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/potatoCookiePress-295x300.jpg 295w, https:\/\/discontinuity.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/potatoCookiePress-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/discontinuity.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/potatoCookiePress-400x407.jpg 400w, https:\/\/discontinuity.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/potatoCookiePress-326x331.jpg 326w, https:\/\/discontinuity.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/potatoCookiePress.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I made some cookies to send to family and friends over the holidays, including some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marthastewart.com\/316840\/green-tea-shortbread-leaves\">green tea shortbread<\/a>. When I made shortbread (normal shortbread usually) with my family, we shaped the cookies by making balls and then pressing them with a cookie press. I don&#8217;t have a cookie press, but I do have potatoes!<\/p>\n<p>This heart shaped press with a A on it worked nicely &#8211; the A was even visible in the majority of the cookies.<\/p>\n<p>A ceramic cookie press usually gets covered with flour to keep the cookies from sticking, but with the potato, I just made sure to rinse it often and keep it moist. It worked pretty well!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[25,26,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discontinuity.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discontinuity.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discontinuity.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discontinuity.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discontinuity.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/discontinuity.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145,"href":"https:\/\/discontinuity.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discontinuity.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discontinuity.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discontinuity.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}