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This is the best Oatmeal Cookie recipe, if you like crisp cookies. It’s from my grandmother, born in 1886. I like dunking them in coffee.
I use Crisco, because I think they hold their shape better than with butter. Also, I usually double it. I don’t roll them in wax paper and refrigerate, but I just roll into balls and bake on parchment.
Oatmeal Cookies
1/2 cup shortening
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
1 egg
1/2 t. vanilla
3/4 cup sifted flour
1/2 t. salt
1/2 t. soda
1 1/2 cups Quick oats
1/4 cup nuts (optional)
Mix shortening and sugars, add egg and vanilla
Sift dry ingredients together and add to batter. Stir in oats and nuts.
Shape in roll in wax paper and chill.
Slice in 1/4" slices and bake on cookie sheet.
350 for about 12 minutes.
Nonna made the best ravioli. As a child, I was mildly disgusted that they contained spinach, but the fact they also had calf brains didn't bother me at all.
I'm sorry I never learned to make them.
Nonna's sister made lovely "waffle cookies;" she refused to give anyone the recipe, took it to her grave.
My grandmother's roast chicken dinner served with Peas that she roasted in the chicken drippings served sour cream on the side. Her Kruschiki cookies. My other grandmother did not cook much but her butter horn cookie recipe is my favorite.
Mommy Dearest fancied herself a good cook, but it was hard to live an Italian neighborhood and go home to pasta with a can of tomato soup dumped on it. Oven baked Banquet pot pies were her weeknight specialty and PB sandwiches for lunch every day. Grandpa from her side of the family would buy and sell restaurants for a hobby...go figure what happened.
Grandma from the other side of the family, worked all her life and would make enough pierogi for the week, which I still miss today. Kiebasi with cabbage and potatoes were another favorite from her but nothing ever beat her Hunter's stew with mashed potatoes. Since she was from the farming region of L'viv, she always grew her own beets for soup as well as horseradish.
I didn't know my grandmothers, but my mother had her favorite recipes. The one I remember best is that she often cooked pot roast in the old-fashioned pressure cooker (I still have mine) and she had her favorite cookie recipe which I posed about in another thread. Another favorite of hers was tuna casserole. I always think of my childhood when I make those dishes.
Nonna made the best ravioli. As a child, I was mildly disgusted that they contained spinach, but the fact they also had calf brains didn't bother me at all.
I'm sorry I never learned to make them.
Nonna's sister made lovely "waffle cookies;" she refused to give anyone the recipe, took it to her grave.
Calf brains
I have heard that brains are very nutritious. Myself, I don’t think I could eat it.
Waffle cookies, that sounds interesting.
I have some family members who will not give out their recipes.
I wish they would
One of my grandmothers (Acadian) apparently used to love to make head cheese. I'm so glad she passed away long before I came along.
My other grandmother made amazing baked beans. She was quite a cook. She'd worked as a cook in Boston for a couple of years, in the 1920s. She was a big fan of the Fanny Farmer cook book. I've got a copy. I also have her old handwritten recipe book. Including the baked beans recipe.
Thanks for sharing that is really a neat piece of history.
This is the best Oatmeal Cookie recipe, if you like crisp cookies. It’s from my grandmother, born in 1886. I like dunking them in coffee.
I use Crisco, because I think they hold their shape better than with butter. Also, I usually double it. I don’t roll them in wax paper and refrigerate, but I just roll into balls and bake on parchment.
Oatmeal Cookies
1/2 cup shortening
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
1 egg
1/2 t. vanilla
3/4 cup sifted flour
1/2 t. salt
1/2 t. soda
1 1/2 cups Quick oats
1/4 cup nuts (optional)
Mix shortening and sugars, add egg and vanilla
Sift dry ingredients together and add to batter. Stir in oats and nuts.
Shape in roll in wax paper and chill.
Slice in 1/4" slices and bake on cookie sheet.
350 for about 12 minutes.
Thank you gentlehearts for sharing your recipe!
I have noticed a lot of recipes from a long time ago used shortening and not much butter for baking cookies.
I didn't know my grandmothers, but my mother had her favorite recipes. The one I remember best is that she often cooked pot roast in the old-fashioned pressure cooker (I still have mine) and she had her favorite cookie recipe which I posed about in another thread. Another favorite of hers was tuna casserole. I always think of my childhood when I make those dishes.
We ate allot of tuna noodle casserole growing up. We grew up pretty poor, and it was a cheap meal. I still like it today.
Mommy Dearest fancied herself a good cook, but it was hard to live an Italian neighborhood and go home to pasta with a can of tomato soup dumped on it. Oven baked Banquet pot pies were her weeknight specialty and PB sandwiches for lunch every day. Grandpa from her side of the family would buy and sell restaurants for a hobby...go figure what happened.
Grandma from the other side of the family, worked all her life and would make enough pierogi for the week, which I still miss today. Kiebasi with cabbage and potatoes were another favorite from her but nothing ever beat her Hunter's stew with mashed potatoes. Since she was from the farming region of L'viv, she always grew her own beets for soup as well as horseradish.
Is your grandma German? That sounds like German food. Sounds good. I liked cooked cabbage.
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