04/06/2005
Winning Recipe...
From Linda Chaput in Ontario, Canada...
Thank you for sharing our fun, Linda! And also for the yummy recipe, which I show below.
Since cooking is so popular amongst my lovely readers, I'm thinking we'll have a 'Cookery Corner' once a week... This won't be part of a competition, but just something we can all look forward to.
I'm thinking recipes, cooking tips etc etc.
I'll post something each week- we'll settle on a regular day, and then if you would like to send in your recipes or tips, I'll post them here.
Another request I'm hoping to respond to with a weekly feature in my Blog is info'on our British Royalty'. So look out for that too!
How about we call it our 'Moment of Majesty' ?!
I shall look forward to that as much as you- I admire our queen tremendously. What makes her so human is the fact that her family is just as unpredictable as anyone else's- but she keeps on smiling, and always remembers the duties she took on and the vows she made at her coronation, from which she has never wavered.
But it won't hurt us to see that the younger royals- and some of the older ones too, make our own relatives seem positively saintly!
And now for Linda's fab' recipe...
Oatmeal cookies
1 1/2 cups sifted, unbleached white flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ginger
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/3 cup safflower oil
1/2 cup molasses
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups rolled oats
1 cup raisins
3/4 cup chopped almonds
In a mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger and sugars. Add safflower oil, molasses, eggs and rolled oats; mix with a wooden spoon until blended. Sift in raisins and nuts. (Dough will be soft.) Drop batter by heaping teaspoons onto nonstick baking sheet or for giant-sized cookies, drop by 1/4 cup onto nonstick baking sheet. Bake at 350 F. 12-15 minutes. Remove from oven. Let stand ! minute. Remove from baking sheet. Cool on wire rack.
Thank you so much, Linda... even if I am already Size Elephant just in time to heave myself into a swimming costume on my hols- according to my girls, who have already sampled the cookies they made earlier this morning, Linda's Oatmeal Cookies are definitely worth increasing to Size Woolly Mammoth for
Off to eat my competition entry!
Boy, how I love these competitions!!!
Love to all, and happy reading!
Susan
Thank you for sharing our fun, Linda! And also for the yummy recipe, which I show below.
Since cooking is so popular amongst my lovely readers, I'm thinking we'll have a 'Cookery Corner' once a week... This won't be part of a competition, but just something we can all look forward to.
I'm thinking recipes, cooking tips etc etc.
I'll post something each week- we'll settle on a regular day, and then if you would like to send in your recipes or tips, I'll post them here.
Another request I'm hoping to respond to with a weekly feature in my Blog is info'on our British Royalty'. So look out for that too!
How about we call it our 'Moment of Majesty' ?!
I shall look forward to that as much as you- I admire our queen tremendously. What makes her so human is the fact that her family is just as unpredictable as anyone else's- but she keeps on smiling, and always remembers the duties she took on and the vows she made at her coronation, from which she has never wavered.
But it won't hurt us to see that the younger royals- and some of the older ones too, make our own relatives seem positively saintly!
And now for Linda's fab' recipe...
Oatmeal cookies
1 1/2 cups sifted, unbleached white flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ginger
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/3 cup safflower oil
1/2 cup molasses
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups rolled oats
1 cup raisins
3/4 cup chopped almonds
In a mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger and sugars. Add safflower oil, molasses, eggs and rolled oats; mix with a wooden spoon until blended. Sift in raisins and nuts. (Dough will be soft.) Drop batter by heaping teaspoons onto nonstick baking sheet or for giant-sized cookies, drop by 1/4 cup onto nonstick baking sheet. Bake at 350 F. 12-15 minutes. Remove from oven. Let stand ! minute. Remove from baking sheet. Cool on wire rack.
Thank you so much, Linda... even if I am already Size Elephant just in time to heave myself into a swimming costume on my hols- according to my girls, who have already sampled the cookies they made earlier this morning, Linda's Oatmeal Cookies are definitely worth increasing to Size Woolly Mammoth for
Off to eat my competition entry!
Boy, how I love these competitions!!!
Love to all, and happy reading!
Susan
