Maria's version of Will Shetterly's version of the recipe that used to be on the Quaker Oats box.
Annotations are Will Shetterly's. Maria's changes are in parentheses.
This began as a recipe from the back of a Quaker Oats box, but it's evolved over the years, and Quaker Oats, for reasons known only to them and their God, have switched to an inferior recipe. Evil does walk the Earth. But Emma Bull says this cookie can thwart the powers of darkness; I say it tastes pretty darn good.
3/4 cup butter
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar (Maria does 3/4 cup brown sugar)
1/2 cup honey (Maria: 1/4 cup honey)
1 egg
1/8 cup apple juice (or water, if you're as boring as Quaker Oats) (Maria skips the juice)
1 tsp. vanilla (Maria's version: 2 tsp. vanilla)
3 cups uncooked rolled oats
1 cup flour
1 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. soda
1/2 tsp. cinnamon (Maria prefers "no nutmeg, and a touch more cinnamon than it calls for")
1/4 tsp. nutmeg
1/4 - 1/2 cup coconut (optional, but nice)
1 bag (12 or 16 oz.) Guitard's (my favorite, but you can use similar deluxe) semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 cup raisins
1 cup almonds, pecans, and/or walnuts (sliced or chopped)
(Maria addition: "and I like to occasionally add 1/2 a chopped chocolate bar -- my favorite is the Chocolove salted dark chocolate with almonds--in which case I lesson the salt about a 1/4 of a tsp.")
Preheat oven to 350 degree F.
Beat the butter, sugar, honey, egg, juice, and vanilla together until creamy.
Combine the oats, flour, salt, soda, cinnamon, and nutmeg in a separate bowl, then mix them with the wet ingredients. Add chocolate chips, raisins, coconut, and nuts to the batter last.
Drop by spoonfuls onto a greased cookie sheet and bake for 12 to 15 minutes.
Eat some of the batter while the first batch is cooking. You're the cook; you deserve it.
Comments (3)
rwilley@... said
at 5:18 pm on Feb 21, 2013
Is this THE Will Shetterly?
rwilley@... said
at 5:19 pm on Feb 21, 2013
Never mind, just saw the Emma Bull reference...
debrarian said
at 5:41 pm on Feb 22, 2013
Yes, who'd a thunk it? Maria can't remember how she stumbled across said recipe (or what induced her to try them out the first time), but she thinks she may have started with an Emma Bull search. And now these cookies are the must-have favorites of her Teen Council and several of her colleagues.
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