No, I've never tried to make cookies with those two particular ingredients.
Although it might be fun to see how they'd turn out.
My TV piece last night dealt with Christmas cookies, and how they're woven into the fabric of an Upper Peninsula. One of gags in it dealt with making cookies that might reflect a UP palette; namely, cookies that taste like beer or pasties. In it, I may have insinuated that I've tried making them before, but in all honesty, I have not.
I mean, I sometimes like to experiment while baking. But I've never had the guts to go that far.
There are a couple of problems with the concept, the biggest being that neither beer nor pasties lend themselves to sweet cookies. Theoretically, I suppose, you could whip up some some kind of beer-inspired frosting to stick on a sugar cookie, and you might get away with it. But pasty flavored cookies? Uhm...that's a hard pass.
Unless, of course, someone comes up with some kind of revolutionary process to make onions and/or rutabagas taste okay in baked goods. And if someone were actually able to do that, they'd probably make a mint out of it.
At least here in the UP.
Admittedly, I HAVE tried a few interesting cookie flavors over the years; in fact, maybe I'll write about them tomorrow. But there is a line that I probably wouldn't cross, and, sadly, on the other side of that line sits two of the iconic foods of the UP.
Here's the whole bit, if you're curious--
(jim@wmqt.com)
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