Hi Everyone,
This cookie ain’t gonna crumble. This cookie ain’t hard. This cookie is soft and chewy. While there are many varieties of cookies, a lot of them claim to be warm, soft and chewy, evoking feelings of comfort, but when you bite into them, they are anything but, with many of them turning to granules in your mouth. Not so with this oatmeal and raisin cookie. It delivers.
Oatmeal and raisin cookies are an old favourite of many people and it’s a cookie that’s been around for generations. It is one of the standard cookies in which you’ll hear people say, “It’s like my gran used to make.” By the time I came along my maternal grandparents had passed on and my paternal granny never made cookies, neither did my mom or aunts. Buns, pones, breads, cakes and pastries they made but no cookies. Don’t feel sorry for me, I never had a sweet tooth and the only cookie I ever thought worthy was Mrs Cummings’ Butter Cookies (which I wrote about a couple of years ago). Given all of this, it begs the question, what’s up with this oatmeal and raisin cookie?
I like to bake and I often make things that I don’t really like or eat but I do so for the experience of doing it, the joy of experimenting, and to feed family and friends. As I left work last Friday, one of my friends who is also one of my tasters, asked in the most circuitous of ways if I was baking the weekend. I told her I wasn’t because I had grading of assignments to catch up on. I do not like grading, and baking is one of the things I do when I want to escape from it. I guess after all that I was going to be baking the
