Squirrel X's Culinary Miscellany!
oatmeal brownie cookies
"Make anything with love, and BAM! It's a beautiful meal."
__Emeril Lagasse
"Who could ever weary of moonlit nights and well-cooked rice?"
__Japanese proverb
"What I love about cooking is that after a hard day,
there is something comforting about the fact that
if you melt butter and add flour, then hot stock, it will get thick! It's a sure thing.
It's a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure!"
__Nora Ephron
"A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness."
__Elsa Schiaparelli
"Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work
in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent,
so is the ballet. "
__Julia Child
"Cooking is a creation."
__Piero Selvaggio
"'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers."
__William Shakespeare
Oatmeal Brownie Cookies
Ingredients:
8 ounces semi-sweet chocolate
1/4 cup butter
2/3 cup corn syrup light
2 eggs, slightly beaten
1/4 teaspoon salt
4 cups oatmeal, the old fashioned kind
2/3 cup brown sugar, firmly pack
1 cup walnuts, coarsely chopped
additional 4 ounces semi-sweet chocolate
1) Preheat oven to 350�.
2) In a two quart saucepan, stir the chocolate and the butter
over low heat 'til the chocolate melts.
3) Remove from heat and stir in the corn syrup, eggs, and salt.
4) In a large mixin' bowl, combine oatmeal, brown sugar, and walnuts.
5) Pour chocolate mixture over dry ingredients and combine thoroughly.
6) Drop by tablespoons full on greased cookie sheets.
7) Bake for fifteen minutes.
8) Cool five minutes on cookie sheet before removin'.
9) Melt the remainin' four ounces of semi sweet chocolate and dip
the top half of each cookie in it. Allow chocolate to set before servin'.
and the best of intentions for whoever wants to try 'em,
but if somethin' goes wrong, don't blame the varmint.*
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