Your post reminds me of a quest that I would love to see KAF take up. The back story is that I have been baking sugar cookies since I was 16 and knew nothing of these things, using a recipe that was handed out in my 7th grade Home Ec class. I rolled them out super thin - 1/8 inch would be fat for these cookies - because what did I know? They were a hit - delicate and flavored with lemon extract, not butter - so I kept making them. Of course they were difficult to work with. About thirty years ago, I found the only working surface that has been consistently successful: a very heavy canvas baking cloth, turned double thickness at each end, into which grommets are affixed, with four detachable plastic suction feet to hold it in place. It is called the "Stayput Pastry Cloth" from a company called Pantry PROducts out of Fort Collins, CO. The company does not exist any longer, and my pastry cloth is showing signs of wear after all these years. Thus we come to the quest. Could KAF possibly track down the product or the patent, with the goal of having it reproduced? I don't think I'm the only baker who would appreciate its usefulness.

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