NoraC
Senior Cook
My father, who is 79, was visiting last week and we were reminiscing about food with my brother and nephew. One of the things my father mentioned wishing he could taste again was his mother's oatmeal cookies. I would love to recreate them for him, despite having no recipe and bloody little personal interest in or experience with the pastry/confectionery discipline of cooking.
What I know about these cookies is:
(1)the basis was leftover breakfast oatmeal; (2)they were chewy (3) I think they went into the oven, but were not browned, so maybe it was for drying (4) my father grew up in Appalachia, born in the Depression and formed in WWII (5) there were no nuts or raisins in them when I was a kid eating them (6) if I were to (with no confectionery skill) describe them, I would say an oatmeal macaroon.
Have you eaten such a thing? Is such a thing buried in your recipe box? My father is old, though not dying; I would love to give the gift of these cookies to him.
What I know about these cookies is:
(1)the basis was leftover breakfast oatmeal; (2)they were chewy (3) I think they went into the oven, but were not browned, so maybe it was for drying (4) my father grew up in Appalachia, born in the Depression and formed in WWII (5) there were no nuts or raisins in them when I was a kid eating them (6) if I were to (with no confectionery skill) describe them, I would say an oatmeal macaroon.
Have you eaten such a thing? Is such a thing buried in your recipe box? My father is old, though not dying; I would love to give the gift of these cookies to him.