I Put a Slice of Bread in with My Cookies. 24 Hours Later, This Is What Happened.
My grandmother kept a slice of white bread in the cookie tin. Not wrapped in anything, not in a corner — just sitting in there among the cookies like it belonged. I thought it was one of those things old people did for reasons nobody could explain anymore. Then one Christmas I baked four dozen sugar cookies on a Tuesday for a party on a Thursday, and by Wednesday afternoon they had gone from soft to something you could file your nails on. So I tried it. One slice of plain white sandwich bread, dropped into the container, lid on, …










