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Thursday, March 20, 2008
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
The Great Oatmeal Cookie Bake-Off! Wish You Had Been There
The winner, from Kingsport's Christine Hickam:
Preheat oven: 375o
Bake 8-10 minutes
Yield 5 dozen
2 eggs, beaten
2 cups plain flour
2 cups quick oats
1 cup brown sugar
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. vanilla
1 cup white sugar
½ tsp. salt
1 cup raisins (optional)
1 cup vegetable oil
½ tsp. baking powder
1 cup nuts (optional – Jo Ann used thin sliced almonds)
Sift together flour, soda, salt and baking powder and set aside. Mix beaten eggs, sugars, oil and vanilla and beat well. Add dry ingredients and beat well. Stir in oats, and/or raisins and nuts. Drop by rounded teaspoonful (or use a cookie scoop) onto baking sheet.
Second Place: The Mistake
Baker Jo Ann Castle accidentally added twice the sugar to the fourth place finisher to create the number two cookie:
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 1/2 cups granulated sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
3 cups quick oats
1 cup raisins
1 cup vegetable oil
2 eggs
1/2 cup milk
PREPARATION:
Sift together dry ingredients; stir in rolled oats and raisins. Stir in oil, eggs, and milk. Beat with a spoon until thoroughly blended. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto an ungreased baking sheet. Bake at 400° for 10 to 12 minutes.
Third Place: eBay Oatmeal Cookies (recipe taken from vintage Kroger Oats box for sale on eBay)
2 eggs
4 cups Rolled Oats (uncooked)
1 cup chopped nuts
pinch of salt
2 cups flour
1 cup coconut
2 cups brown sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup melted butter and lard
1/2 teaspoon soda in 4 tablespoons hot water.
Beat eggs together and add other ingredients in the order given, mixing with each item thoroughly as added. Drop by spoonfuls on buttered tins and bake in moderate oven.
Fourth Place (second place with half the sugar)
Kenny’s Oatmeal Cookies
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
3 cups quick oats
1 cup raisins
1 cup vegetable oil
2 eggs
1/2 cup milk
PREPARATION:
Sift together dry ingredients; stir in rolled oats and raisins. Stir in oil, eggs, and milk. Beat with a spoon until thoroughly blended. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto an ungreased baking sheet. Bake at 400° for 10 to 12 minutes.
Fifth Place (anonymous recipe from friend of Jo Ann's)
Preheat oven: 375o
Bake 10-12 minutes
2 eggs
1 cup plain four
4 cups rolled oats
1 cup vegetable oil
½ tsp. baking soda
1 cup raisins
1 cup packed brown sugar
½ tsp. salt
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
¼ tsp. ground nutmeg
Mix oil, brown sugar, eggs and vanilla until well blended. Combine the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg; stir into the sugar mixture. Mix in the oats and raisins last. Drop by rounded spoonfuls onto greased cookie sheets.
Allow to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Kroger Oat Cookies - Help! (Update: Mystery Solved After Paper Went to Press)
Can you read the recipe off the label? I can't but maybe a sharp-eyed reader can.
If you can email me.
FLASH!!! eBay seller Don Castleman kindly copied the recipe off the label and emailed it to me!
Here it is:
2 eggs, 4 cups Rolled Oats (uncooked), 1 cup chopped nuts, pinch of salt, 2 cups flour, 1 cup cocoanut, 2 cups brown sugar, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1 cup melted butter and lard, 1/2 teaspoon soda in 4 tablespoons hot water.
Beat eggs together and add other ingredients in the order given, mixing with each item thoroughly as added. Drop by spoonfuls on buttered tins and bake in moderate oven.
Here are the other Oat Cookie recipes using oil that came in from readers:
John Osborne sent this one from “Fancy Fixin's Southern Style: Ruth and Frank DeFriese's Cookbook.” (Buckhorn Press, Gatlinburg. Copyright 1978)
Oatmeal Cookies
2 cups sifted flour
1 and 3/4 cups sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
3 cups rolled oats
1 cup chopped candied fruit (I think I'd omit this)
1/2 cup nuts
1 cup cooking oil
2 eggs
1/2 cup milk
Mix dry stuff. Add oats, fruit and nuts. mix some more. add in this order: oil, eggs, milk. Blend well. drop by teaspoons onto ungreased baking sheets about 1.5 inches apart and bake at 'bout 400 for 10 or 12 minutes. Says it makes about 6 dozen.
CHRISTINE’S OATMEAL COOKIES
Preheat oven: 375o Bake 8-10 minutes Yield 5 dozen
2 eggs, beaten 2 cups plain flour 2 cups quick oats
1 cup brown sugar 1 tsp. baking soda 1 tsp. vanilla
1 cup white sugar ½ tsp. salt 1 cup raisins, optional
1 cup vegetable oil ½ tsp. baking powder 1 cup nuts, optional
Sift together flour, soda, salt and baking powder and set aside. Mix beaten eggs, sugars, oil and vanilla and beat well. Add dry ingredients and beat well. Stir in oats, and/or raisins and nuts. Drop by rounded teaspoonful (or use a cookie scoop) onto baking sheet.
Christine suggests using chocolate chips rather than raisins as a variation.
CAL’S OATMEAL COOKIES
Preheat oven: 375o Bake 10-12 minutes Yield: Unknown
2 eggs 1 cup plain four 4 cups rolled oats
1 cup vegetable oil ½ tsp. baking soda 1 cup raisins
1 cup packed brown sugar ½ tsp. salt
1 tsp vanilla 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
¼ tsp. ground nutmeg
Mix oil, brown sugar, eggs and vanilla until well blended. Combine the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg; stir into the sugar mixture. Mix in the oats and raisins last. Drop by rounded spoonfuls onto greased cookie sheets.
Allow to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.
Sunday, March 09, 2008
The Bobby Dodd Jersey timeline
This is the D-B B-Team in 1962-63. Note "Bobby Dodd" jerseys number 23, 24, and 19.
(I'm on the back row, third from left, wearing number 30, although you can't read it.)
This is the 1953-54 D-B varsity, wearing the "Bobby Dodd" jerseys.
And here we have the real Bobby Dodd jerseys from the 1925-26 D-B team.
Here's a link to the Kingsport Yearbook Project, where I found the bottom two pictures.
Friday, March 07, 2008
Bruce Haney's Shiny New Patent
That's what a patent looks like. It's also what Bruce Haney looks like, holding one.
Bruce's patent, which he got in the mail last week, is for his Fiddlewidget (TM), a slide rule device for music studies.
If you want to watch a demonstration video of how the Fiddlewidget works click here.