@ehBeth,
I getcha. Since I make essentially all my food dishes except for the odd restaurant visit, I do cook in summer high heat. It's good monetarily that I have the time to do this and pretty much like it, very handy or I'd be in big doo doo otherwise.
I do not like July or August here, even though it's famously dry heat, for many reasons and cooking is only one of them. This is a change from the old me, probably mediated by increasing age and six years recently in a climate that only got to 63 F in the height of summer. I adapted to that, apparently. Also odd, this is the only place in my lifetime that I've lived with any kind of air conditioning, in this case something I'd not heard of, swamp coolers. They bring interior temp down a bit.
The bad news is I screwed up on the cookies. What was I thinking? I pulled down the bottle of raw honey, admittedly flavorful, but not the molasses. No wonder the dough looked oddly pale. Bah! But I'll keep on rolling..
