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This recipe is the actual inside of a lid from a famous brand of oats. Mimi’s cookie recipe is kind of a secret because of her omissions, substitutions, and changes to the recipe after all these years.
Sometimes she adds nuts. Other times, no raisins at all. Usually more cinnamon. Or most times chocolate chips are tossed into the mix.
The exact substitutions and deletions, types of nuts and/or chocolate remain a secret. She won’t tell me.
Tiny Taste Tester Approved.
“I thought you said you didn’t like these cookies>”
“No, I never said I don’t like these cookies. They’re just my least favorite cookie you bake.”
Least favorite means I like the other cookies you bake better than this one. But the damage to our relationship was already done. My penance was being limited to one cookie. One. Cookie. Ouch!
Note the last two lines on the recipe card. Yes, these cookies are much better with chocolate. (and the picture of the cookie is for the reader who complained once about not enough food pictures).
“Why do I always make the dessert?”
“Because you make wonderful desserts and our dinner parties would not be the same without one of your desserts.”
This cookie recipe is a recipe Grandma Beverly used to make. I don’t remember The Boss ever making this cookie. When the offspring were young there were always homemade cookies in the house. Still I’m pretty sure I never had this cookie. Until yesterday. I was forced to sample one before dinner. All I said was
“These things are dangerous!”
I learned the “forgotten” part of the cookie description is when you put the cookie sheet into the oven then turn the oven off. Set it and forget it.
Ole! Today is Arlo’s first birthday. Arlo is the son of my sons’ childhood babysitter. This is but one cookie from an entire plate full of the most incredible cookies I’ve ever seen. Many pictures were snapped to preserve the memory.
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