The Cookie Baker is Home

Since I can't play outdoors until it stops flurrying and being so winter-like, I found some gumption and baked cookies. Seventy-two to be exact! The recipe says yield would be about 4 dozen. Well I got 6 dozen! The only thing I did differently this time was to use two cups of raisins and soak them overnight in a bowl to soften them. This project is labor intensive for me now, but soooo worth the effort. It is one of my very favorite recipes and so chewy and tasty. I should tell you that I always use an old recipe that I found on the lid many years ago. (Today's recipe is a bit different on the box. It calls for less butter.)  I used Quaker Oats Old Fashion Uncooked variety of oatmeal.

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So good warm from the oven!

EATS!

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Serious baking has begun. Today I made oatmeal cookies and added chopped walnuts and Ocean Spray dried cranberries to the dough. Big Red is wonderful, being the workhorse that it is! I was given a pound of the walnuts and two pounds of the dried cranberries. Hmmmmm.......now what?You will soon see.  Gotta work on apples soon.

Lunch today was two halves of Pecos Bill's BBQ chicken from their stand that comes to town each weekend and cooks good stuff, fresh cider from the orchard and a couple of cookies. Supper - ditto (leftovers).

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