Subj : Better Than Best Oatmeal Cookies
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From : Ben Collver
Date : Thu Jun 27 2024 09:52 am

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     Title: Better Than Best Oatmeal Cookies
Categories: Cookies
     Yield: 1 Batch

     1 c  Butter
   1/2 c  White sugar
     1 c  Brown sugar
     1    Egg
     1 ts Vanilla
 1 1/2 c  Whole wheat pastry flour
     1 ts Soda
   1/4 ts Salt
   1/4 ts Nutmeg
   1/2 ts Cinnamon
     2 tb Ground flaxseed (optional)
          - (adds omega 3 for
          - vegetarians)
   1/4 ts Ginger (optional)
   1/4 ts Mace (optional)
     1 ds Cloves (optional)
 1 1/2 c  Rolled oats
   3/4 c  Walnuts and/or pecans;
          -finely chopped

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   1/3 c  White sugar
     1 ts Cinnamon; or more

 These are not your ordinary oatmeal cookies. For one thing, they
 don't have those nasty raisins in them--those squished-bug-like
 raisins that exist only to deceive the nearsighted into believing
 they're about to bite into a chocolate chip cookie. For another, they
 are more crispy than chewy, with a delicate consistency similar to
 sugar cookies. As far as I know, the recipe has been in my mother's
 recipe box since before I was born, labeled BEST Oatmeal Cookies. She
 was right.

 Preheat oven to 350°F.

 If you want to make this vegan, use coconut oil and a vegan flax or
 chia egg in place of the egg.

 Cream together butter, sugar, egg, and vanilla. Don't use
 shortening--it makes all the difference in the world! And for even
 more amazing flavor, brown the butter first.

 Sift together flour, soda, salt, and optional ground flaxseed, then
 add to the creamed mix.

 Stir in oats and nuts.

 Prepare a bowl of cinnamon & sugar. Keep adding cinnamon until you
 get the color you want--darker if you want a heavier hit of cinnamon,
 but if you've added the spices above you don't need too much.

 Roll dough into balls the size of small walnuts, then roll in the
 cinnamon/sugar mix.

 Use parchment to line the cookie sheets if you have it--handy stuff!
 If you don't have it, grease the cookie sheet.

 Place on cookie sheet and flatten gently with your thumb or the
 bottom of a glass. They do spread some so don't crowd.

 Bake at 350°F for 7-9 minutes; start with 7 to test your oven. Then
 hide a batch for your snacking pleasure before you give your family a
 taste. In my oven when I first posted this recipe 8 minutes brought
 them to perfection; I now have a new oven in a different house and I
 bake them for 7 minutes.

 If you put two cookie sheets in the oven at once, then halfway through
 rotate the pans top/bottom and front/back for more even heat
 distribution.

 After you take the pans out, let them sit for 1-2 minutes before
 removing from the pan. This allows them to set up; if you try to take
 them off the pan too soon they'll be floppy and tear apart.

 Recipe by Barb Chamberlain

 Recipe FROM: <https://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2008/11/
 seriously-good-oatmeal-cookie-recipe.html>

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