Beau is an interesting word and not heard too often. Dictionary definition:
Beau - (via dictionary.com) –noun
1. a frequent and attentive male companion.
2. a male escort for a girl or woman.
3. a dandy; fop.
–verb (used with object)
4. to escort (a girl or woman), as to a social gathering.
I had to hunt for the pudding. Jell-O makes a lot of instant/sugar-free varieties, which according to the recipe is NOT (in specific capital letters) what you want. However, it is exceptionally difficult to find NOT instant pudding, especially when the handy grocery store employees (and the rest of the general public) aren't paying attention and mix them all together. For the record the NOT instant Jell-O brand pudding is called 'Cook 'n Serv'. It comes in 3 varieties: chocolate (easy to find), vanilla and butterscotch (not found with the chocolate at the grocery store I went to). I finally (after some panic) found the butterscotch pudding and bought an extra box or two just in case.
The butterscotch pudding lends the very tasty flavor to the cookie, and also turns it bright orange thanks to the yellow 5, red 40 and blue 1. Beware of this if you go the traditional "roll into balls" route. In addition to the lovely orange coloring it is also a very sticky dough. We gave up and used a cookie scoop.
The cookies spreeeeaaaaaaaad and become nice and thin. The orange turned a caramel brown.
I did discover that there is a bit of finesse in the timing of these cookies. In my oven it was exactly 11 minutes for 12 to 16 (the 16 tried to merge together) cookies. The last 8 or so were left in for 11 minutes and got a little crispy. They might also have been a little smaller than the first rolled balls.
I remember as a kid, once we got this recipe, they were a regular treat; we made them a LOT. Don't have a clue where the recipe came from, Aunt Sue might know. May need to look in the ancient recipe notebook that Grandpa wrote out for Grandma one year as a gift. It might be in there.
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