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Post by Chuckie on Aug 29, 2020 10:40:25 GMT -5
Monkey & I were going Irish road bowling last fall in Lawrence, and we were rendezvousing w/the rest of the gang @ the Hy-Vee Grocers parking lot in Lawrence. I had the munchies, so went in and they had a "cookie lady" giving out samples of THEE BEST oatmeal/sunflower seed cookies!! They were a (local) brand Grace's Best, I googled it, and found them: www.gracesbestcookies.com/ Some blogger gal was APPALLED (like ME!) @ the price, and had come up with a recipe. A gal on that website said they were VERY similar to the "Oatmeal Coconut Crispies" in Betty Crocker's Cooky Book, 'circa 1963, which we have a reprint of. Here's a link to an online recipe, but it is NOT like the original one, which I posted below: www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/crispy-oatmeal-coconut-cookies/3d7c0050-f08e-465f-82c7-c20d4049aa3bThe original made about TWICE as many, and did NOT contain baking POWDER. At any rate, Monkey does NOT like coconut, ergo Chuckie DON'T get coconut in NOTHIN' round here!! S-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O, here's how we changed it up to (kinda) match the Hy-Vee cookie lady's Grace's Best Cookies: OATMEAL SUNFLOWER SEED COOKIE CRISPSMakes about 4 or 5 dozen cookies1 cup softened butter
1 cup granulated sugar 1 cup brown sugar (packed)
2 eggs 1 tsp vanilla
2.5 cups Flour 1 tsp soda
1 tsp salt 1 cup rolled (Old Fashioned) Oats
1.5 cups roasted sunflower seeds, unsalted. Beat shortening, sugars, eggs and vanilla until fluffy. Measure flour by dipping method. Sift flour, soda & salt thoroughly, mix into butter mixture. Blend in rolled oats and sunflower seeds. Shape into 2" rolls. Wrap tightly in waxed paper or Saran wrap, place in icebox overnight (refrigerator to you non-Kansans!!) We've made them like 9am--as in TODAY--and will bake around 4:00 this afternoon, they're fine. Here's the "logs": Heat Chambers to 400 degrees. Cut chilled dough into 1/4" slices. Place on parchment paper covered or onto lightly buttered cookie sheet, keep uncut dough refrigerated between batches. Bake 8 to 10 minutes until lightly browned---TRY not to overcook, burn easily. Cool on cookie sheet a coupla minutes, then finish cooling on wire rack. I'll TRY to remember to take a pic of the finished product too. And we've only cooked like HALF a log before, and left the uncooked logs in the icebox a week or better, never killed anyone--SO FAR!
These are SO GOOD!!! And you can ( LIE!) and tell everybody they're HEALTHY, in that they have oatmeal AND sunflower seeds in them!! (just omit telling them about the 2 cups sugar/two sticks butter/two eggs part!! ) CHEERS! Chuckie
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Post by vaporvac on Aug 29, 2020 18:50:06 GMT -5
They sound fantastic. Do you think they need soda or baking powder?
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Post by Chuckie on Aug 29, 2020 22:43:48 GMT -5
They sound fantastic. Do you think they need soda or baking powder? Old "BC" had her shite down to a SCIENCE, methinks I'd stick w/ HER!!! "Grace's Cookies" were NOT a "raised" cookie--in that they were flat/half-dollar size. Someone once told me that IF you're CHILLING the dough before BAKING it, it's so it does NOT "expand" so much--in that it (basically) stays the same DIAMETER your "log" was. Monkey's rolls that were PICTURED were more like the diameter suggested in the Betty Crocker RECIPE. FIRST time we made these cookies, the diameter was more like a cross betwixt a .50 cent piece and a silver dollar. Will send out pix once Monk makes the logs SMALLER and we bake them... CHEERS! Chuckie
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Post by Chuckie on Aug 31, 2020 12:37:43 GMT -5
UPDATE: Monkey rolled them thinner this w/e, and baked some this morning. They are SO good!!! Here's the size that "Grace's" were---small ones are 1/2 dollar size, big ones (old) silver dollar size, NOT Susan Anthony $ size!!: We took these to my Auntie Peg's 90th B-day party down in St Cloud FL last October, as the recipe makes a L-O-T; they were easy to transport on the plane was well. A.P. was born/raised in Hutchinson, Kansas and moved to Florida about ten years ago to be near her daughter. Now whenever they have a party in their retirement village trailer park, all the old peeps clamor for her to "make some more of those Kansas sunflower cookies!!" LOL CHEERS! Chuckie
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Post by karitx on Aug 31, 2020 13:34:39 GMT -5
I am a diehard coconut fan and the coconut version is one of my very favorite cookies ever! (sorry, Chuckie) I also really like roasted sunflower seeds, so I might have to try it that way, too.
This must have been a pretty popular recipe to riff on because my mom also made a chocolate version without the coconut. She used 2 cups of oats, reduced the flour to 2 cups and added 1/2 cup of cocoa powder. They are still my brother's favorite cookies.
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Post by karitx on Aug 31, 2020 13:38:19 GMT -5
And what is "Irish road bowling"? Or shouldn't I ask?
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Post by vaporvac on Aug 31, 2020 18:22:14 GMT -5
karitx, imagine chocolate AND coconut!
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Post by Chuckie on Aug 31, 2020 18:27:08 GMT -5
And what is "Irish road bowling"? Or shouldn't I ask? ...ti's GREAT CRAIC, as they say in Ireland!! Just google it and have a see, or here ya go!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab00HeByRkQIn the local tournaments, folks have like an old time shopping cart, w/their favourite "libations" in the cart, which they dutifully pull along the route--1 to 1.5 miles--to SUSTAIN them on such a long trek!! The team that finishes the course with the LEAST amount of rolls (think 'golf') is the winner!! Nana, you ought to start this up w/ YOUR "potluck" bunch, as it's a HOOT!!! You can be a SAMSON or a pipsqueak--- ALL souls created equal on the Irish road bowling court!! Just need a route w/ NO curbs nor gutters, as you want the ball to "roll where it may". Your partner takes up the next roll from wherever your ball STOPPED-- NOT went off the road--on the previous roll. Low score wins!!!! CHEERS! Chuckie
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Post by karitx on Aug 31, 2020 22:19:41 GMT -5
That looks like a blast, especially with libations!
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Post by nana on Sept 2, 2020 20:26:24 GMT -5
And what is "Irish road bowling"? Or shouldn't I ask? ...ti's GREAT CRAIC, as they say in Ireland!! Just google it and have a see, or here ya go!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab00HeByRkQIn the local tournaments, folks have like an old time shopping cart, w/their favourite "libations" in the cart, which they dutifully pull along the route--1 to 1.5 miles--to SUSTAIN them on such a long trek!! The team that finishes the course with the LEAST amount of rolls (think 'golf') is the winner!! Nana, you ought to start this up w/ YOUR "potluck" bunch, as it's a HOOT!!! You can be a SAMSON or a pipsqueak--- ALL souls created equal on the Irish road bowling court!! Just need a route w/ NO curbs nor gutters, as you want the ball to "roll where it may". Your partner takes up the next roll from wherever your ball STOPPED-- NOT went off the road--on the previous roll. Low score wins!!!! CHEERS! Chuckie Oh it would definitely go over big if we only had a flat enough road to do it on! The ball would never stop from the first roll till it rolled down the hill into the creek! But the video reminds me of our Extreme Bocce, which we’ve played at the beach, while camping, pretty much anywhere but on an actual bocce court. Same rules apply—you gotta play it the way it lies, no matter what!
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