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Cookie-baking Time!; Oatmeal Crisps
Topic Started: Nov 22 2004, 02:10 PM (90 Views)
Heathertee
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These are the best-tasting, thin, crisp-tender cookies, with a whiff of cinnamon and walnuts. I make them for the holidays and use red or green sugar in the flattening.
Don't be tempted to use butter! For these cookies, the Crisco is what gives them their special tenderness.

1 cup Crisco or other solid, unflavored shortening
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla

1 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp. soda
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 1/2 cups quick oats

3/4 cup chopped walnuts


Cream the butter, sugars and egg together at medium high speed til light and fluffy. Beat in the vanilla.
Stir together the dry ingredients and add in thirds to the mixture, blending well. Add the nuts last.
You can chill the dough to make it easier to handle, but I don't bother. Turn the oven to preheat to 325 F.
Drop the dough by rather large spoonsful onto a cooky sheet. If you want the cookies to be more perfectly shaped, you can pick up each wad of dough and lightly roll it into a ball between your palms.
Butter a flat-bottomed drinking glass and dip it in a small bowl of white or colored sugar. Flatten the cookies to about 1/3 " thick, re-sugaring the glass between each one. (Takes less time to do a whole sheet, than to type this paragraph!)
Bake for about 10 minutes or until the bottoms are lightly browned. Cool on racks.
These keep very well in a tightly covered tin. Hide from teenage boys and grown men.
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cajun cook
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You See the north and south aint so different. This is Donnas oatmeal chocolate chip recipe.

1 cup crisco
1 cup granulated sugar
1cup brown sugar
2 eggs beaten
1 t. vanilla
1 1/2 cup flour
1 t. soda
1/2 t. salt
3 cup oatmeal
1 large bag chip (semi sweet)

Cream sugars, shortening, eggs and vanilla.
Sift flour, soda,and salt.
Add to creamed mixture.
Add chips and oatmeal.

Bake at 375 deg. for 10 to 15 min. :P Danny Cajun microwave Thibodeaux
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Heathertee
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Yup, very similar recipe, Danny. Does Donna ever put pecans in that? Sounds good.

But I have to disagree about the South not being different from the North. It has been down to 16 degrees here twice already and there are no leaves left on the trees.
I spent the afternoon digging canna lily tubers to store down cellar (where the oil burner is pounding away to keep the house at 70 F)so we can have flowers again next year. And, it cost my Mom $200 to have the leaves raked and hauled away (5 rakings since late Sept.).
When I go out before 10 am, I have to scrape the frost off the windshield, and pretty soon I'll be putting salt on the walks so I can get the mail without breaking my a$$.

Tell me that isn't different. :P
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Your Right, about the Diff. We have our air cond. set at 70 deg. so we can deal with the cookie baking. She does add pecans to it sometimes but now pecans are $ 8.00 a lb. and my trees are to young to make any. As far as the temp. My freezer aint even set at 16 deg. :lol: :lol: When I need leaves for my compost pile I go around town and rake and bag leaves for people for free, just so I can have them. As far as the salt, the only thing I put salt on is my Crawfish, and its almost time for them too. :clap: Danny
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