# Bakers Dozen **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 4, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173 "2010-08-04T17:56:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 546
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2012, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/10902 "2012-05-13T04:58:31Z")
Carl Reiner’s Fucking Good Cookies recipe: 3 ounces cream cheese, softened 1/4 pound (1 stick) unsalted butter 9 tablespoons sugar 9 walnut halves, finely chopped 1 cup flour Preheat oven to 350. Cream together cheese and butter. Add sugar gradually, creaming after each addition. Add walnuts. Fold in flour and blend until smooth. Drop dough by teaspoonfuls on to an ungreased cookie sheet. Flatten dough with slightly wet fingers until wafer thin. Bake 10 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2012, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/10903 "2012-05-13T04:59:31Z")
Kinds of cookies your mother/grandmother made! 1. pecan cookies 2. snickerdoodles 3. lemon cookies 4. Carl Reiner’s Fucking Good Cookies] 5. oatmeal raisin cookies 6. peanut butter cookies ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/10904 "2012-05-14T01:01:36Z")
Kinds of cookies your mother/grandmother made! 1. pecan cookies 2. snickerdoodles 3. lemon cookies 4. Carl Reiner’s Fucking Good Cookies 5. oatmeal raisin cookies 6. Chocolate chip ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/10905 "2012-05-14T02:04:51Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Preheat oven to 350. Cream together cheese and butter. Add sugar gradually, creaming after each addition. Add walnuts. Fold in flour and blend until smooth. Drop dough by teaspoonfuls on to an ungreased cookie sheet. Flatten dough with slightly wet fingers until wafer thin. Bake 10 minutes. 😃 (Big deal on his monologue was the ‘slightly wet’ fingers was spit, and the surface (I think) was the bottom of a percolator) ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/10906 "2012-05-14T02:22:30Z")
Kinds of cookies your mother/grandmother made! 1. pecan cookies 2. snickerdoodles 3. lemon cookies 4. Carl Reiner’s Fucking Good Cookies 5. oatmeal raisin cookies 6. Chocolate chip 7. Shortbread ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/10907 "2012-05-14T05:08:02Z")
Kinds of cookies your mother/grandmother made! 1. pecan cookies 2. snickerdoodles 3. lemon cookies 4. Carl Reiner’s Fucking Good Cookies 5. oatmeal raisin cookies 6. peanut butter cookies 7. Chocolate chip 8. Shortbread 9. gingerbread ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/10908 "2012-05-14T12:56:16Z")
“Snickerdoodles” are real cookies? I thought they were made up for the movie _Hoodwinked!_. :o I’d answer, but my grandmother, bless her soul, was a pretty bad cook and I don’t ever remember her making cookies. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/10909 "2012-05-14T13:06:07Z")
Kinds of cookies your mother/grandmother made! 1. pecan cookies 2. snickerdoodles 3. lemon cookies 4. Carl Reiner’s Fucking Good Cookies 5. oatmeal raisin cookies 6. peanut butter cookies 7. Chocolate chip 8. Shortbread 9. gingerbread 10. Cinnamon “squirrel” (swirl) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/10910 "2012-05-14T13:26:36Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > “Snickerdoodles” are real cookies? … Indeed they are!: [http://www.pillsburybaking.com/products/details/1044?gclid=CLSluqrw\_68CFSWFQAodGEgXDQ](http://www.pillsburybaking.com/products/details/1044?gclid=CLSluqrw_68CFSWFQAodGEgXDQ) Kinds of cookies your mother/grandmother made! 1. pecan cookies 2. snickerdoodles 3. lemon cookies 4. Carl Reiner’s Fucking Good Cookies 5. oatmeal raisin cookies 6. peanut butter cookies 7. Chocolate chip 8. Shortbread 9. gingerbread 10. Cinnamon “squirrel” (swirl) 11. Ginger drops Fantastic cookies, if you like ginger. Recipe available upon PM request. ---
**Author:** ![Blkshp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blkshp/32/7135_2.png) [@Blkshp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blkshp)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/10911 "2012-05-15T01:47:24Z")
Kinds of cookies your mother/grandmother made! 1. pecan cookies 2. snickerdoodles 3. lemon cookies 4. Carl Reiner’s Fucking Good Cookies 5. oatmeal raisin cookies 6. peanut butter cookies 7. Chocolate chip 8. Shortbread 9. gingerbread 10. Cinnamon “squirrel” (swirl) 11. Ginger drops 12. Toll House ---
**Author:** ![copperwindow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@copperwindow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/copperwindow)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/10912 "2012-05-15T02:53:26Z")
Kinds of cookies your mother/grandmother made! 1. pecan cookies 2. snickerdoodles 3. lemon cookies 4. Carl Reiner’s Fucking Good Cookies 5. oatmeal raisin cookies 6. peanut butter cookies 7. Chocolate chip 8. Shortbread 9. gingerbread 10. Cinnamon “squirrel” (swirl) 11. Ginger drops 12. Toll House 13. Jungle cookies (with coconut) Next is sexy cousin primes 1. 227 ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/10913 "2012-05-15T03:10:14Z")
> [@](#): > > Next is sexy cousin primes > > 1. 227 Er…what? What’s a “sexy cousin prime”? ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/10914 "2012-05-15T03:14:13Z")
> [@copperwindow](#): > > Next is sexy cousin primes > > 1. 227 > [@Infovore](#): > > Er…what? What’s a “sexy cousin prime”? yeah, what **Infovore** said. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/10915 "2012-05-15T03:34:34Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > yeah, what **Infovore** said. Okay, I figured Google would solve everything, so I looked it up, and got this: > **[Cousin prime](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin_prime)** > > In number theory, cousin primes are prime numbers that differ by four. Compare this with twin primes, pairs of prime numbers that differ by two, and sexy primes, pairs of prime numbers that differ by six. > The cousin primes (sequences OEIS: A023200 and OEIS: A046132 in OEIS) below 1000 are: > The only prime belonging to two pairs of cousin primes is 7. One of the numbers n, n + 4, n + 8 will always be divisible by 3, so n = 3 is the only case where all three are primes. > An example of a large pro... which also talks about “sexy primes.” But it still doesn’t explain what a “sexy cousin prime” is, and after looking at the sequence, I still don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/10916 "2012-05-15T03:36:19Z")
Maybe it’s Primes that were also [vehicles]([227 (TV series) - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/227_(TV_series)) for Jackee and or Marla Gibbs? ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/10917 "2012-05-15T03:37:13Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Maybe it’s Primes that were also vehicles for Jackee and or Marla Gibbs? You know, the sitcom was the first thing I tried to fit that into when I saw the category. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/10918 "2012-05-15T03:49:39Z")
Sexy cousin primes 1. 227 2. 881 (Did I get that right? Kind of like trying to figure out an XKCD) ---
**Author:** ![copperwindow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@copperwindow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/copperwindow)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/10919 "2012-05-15T03:58:13Z")
Sexy cousin primes 1. 227 2. 881 3. 463 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/10920 "2012-05-15T04:57:07Z")
I was specifically told there would be no math. Or incest. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/10921 "2012-05-15T05:00:20Z")
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