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We have an elderly friend that I like to bake things for from time to time. We usually go to visit her a couple of times a week and I usually bring her something I have baked on one of those occasions. I get to enjoy the pleasure of baking something and she gets to enjoy the pleasure of eating what I have baked. As a diabetic I am not really supposed to be eating a lot of baked goods, so it works really well for me as I love to bake. Its a win/win situation really!
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This is a really simple old fashioned oatmeal cookie recipe that comes from a book I have had for a very long time entitled Prairie Kitchen Sampler, by E. Mae Fritz . . .
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Sixty Six Years of a midwestern farm kitchen. Published in 1988 it is a wealth of recipes and reminiscences from the life of Nebraska farmwife Alice Mickish Hendrickson, compiled by her daughter. Some of these recipes date right back to the early 1920's. I just love this book and I love reading the stories of her experiences as a farm wife. There are no photographs in it of the food, just quaint little sketches, but the recipes are sound and delicious.
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"The window in the pantry off of Carrie's kitchen opened onto a side porch. After a night out dancing, Walter made a practice of slipping through that little window and raiding the cookie jar before he headed on upstairs to bed. He counted it a lucky raid when these cookies made from his maternal grandmother's recipe were in the cookie jar." (1922 - 1934)
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These are the kind of cookies that my own grandmother made. Nothing fancy here, but good good eating.
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Soft and cake like . . . these tasty little pillows are stogged full of soft sticky raisins and the crunch of toasted walnuts. I always like to toast my nuts before I bake with them. It helps to highlight their nuttiness and adds great flavour to baked goods. Lightly enhanced with warm baking spices . . . cinnamon, nutmeg . . . allspice . . . these cookies please on every level. Break out the milk jug and drinking glasses! These are milk and cookie cookies! You are going to absolutely love these!
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*Grandmother's Oatmeal Cookies*
Makes 3 dozen
190g sugar (1 cup)
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Store in an airtight container.
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Cookies . . . biscuits . . . a rose by any other name.
Enjoy! Bon Appetit!
I so enjoy reading your blog and the recipes. I might not make many of them but they are a treat to the eyes just the same. As an oatmeal cookie lover I will give this one a try in the Fall.
ReplyDeleteYou will enjoy these if you are not looking for a crisp oatmeal cookie Jacqueline! These are very cakey, not dunkers, but very good! I think they would be lovely glazed! Thanks so much for your kind comments re the blog! xo
DeleteNothing better than oats in a cookie:)
ReplyDeleteAnd oats are so good for the heart Monique! ;-) xo
DeleteThis recipe looks great - like the idea of boiling the raisens first. I make one of your other oatmeal cookie recipes all the times, nothing but oatmeal in that one. They are especially good for nursing Moms since oatmeal stimulates milk production; this I did not know when I was a young nursing Mom. Thanks again for another special tried and true recipe!
ReplyDeleteThanks Christine! I did not know that about nursing moms either! They say you learn something new every day. Like I said, these are not crisp dunking biscuits, but really moreish with a glass of milk! xo
DeleteI have looked several times to try to find the oatmeal cookie recipe which I lost where the raisins were boiled in water and the water put into the recipe. Eureka! I just found it on your blog. Now that I know that you liked the recipe, I will sign up to enjoy your treasures. Thank you, very much. ~Ginene
ReplyDeleteOh I am so pleased! I really hope that you enjoy the cookies! xo
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