Note: This year, the Cookie Walk has been moved to the second Saturday in December—December 14th!
Here are recipes for cookies you can make in advance and freeze (in dough form), baking them in the week before the Cookie Walk. This week’s recipe is for a good old fashioned cookie — a favorite of Charlotte Hawtin’s grandmother. It came all the way from Virginia to Missouri on a covered wage in the first quarter if the 19th Century.
Lydia Wood’s Oatmeal Cookies
3/4 pound butter 1 cup sugar 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup flour 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon nutmeg 2 cups old fashioned rolled oats 3/4 teaspoon baking powder dissolved in 1 teaspoon hot water 1 cup raisins 1/2 cup nut pieces
Cream together butter and sugar. Add eggs and combine well. Add vanilla then other ingredients in the order listed, stirring after each addition. Fold in raisins & nuts and combine. Drop by teaspoons onto greased sheet one & half inched apart and bake for 12 to 15 mins. Cool on rack. (Should you be using “quick oats”, increase the quantity to 2 and 1/3 cups.)
Last minute preparations in the Parish Hall (Cookie Walk 2010)
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