Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

Again, I'm making cookies. It's just it's so rainy where I am that I'm just in to cookie making mood. So, deciding on a recipe was an interesting process. For instance, I first thought I would use the recipe on the inside of the oatmeal carton. Then I saw that it wanted 3 cups of oatmeal (and I didn't have 3 cups of oatmeal), so I looked for another. I found a number of recipes that resulted in crisp oatmeal raisin cookies. Who wants a crisp oatmeal raisin cookie? They're supposed to be chewy. But then I finally found what I was looking for in the good old Fannie Farmer Cookbook.

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Cape Cod Oatmeal Cookies

1.5 cups flour

.5 tsp baking soda

1tsp cinnamon

.5 tsp salt

1 egg, lightly beaten

1 cup sugar

.5 cup melted butter/shortening

1 Tbsp molasses

.25 cup milk

1.75 cups oatmeal

.5 cup of raisins

.5 cup chopped nuts

Preheat the ovent to 350 F. Mix the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt together in a large bowl. Stir the remaining ingredients. Arrange by teaspoonfuls on unbuttered cookie sheets and bake until the edges are brown, about 10-12 minutes.

Don't you just love a cookie recipe that simple? I, however, made some little changes, just for my taste. I didn't put any nuts in, because I don't like nuts in my oatmeal raisin cookies. I also added 1tsp vanilla extract, .5(ish)tsp almond extract, .25 tsp allspice, and a small pinch of gound cloves. I tend to do this a lot because I love messing around with spices.

So, similar to last time, the weather is dark and cloudy and rainy (again! It is raining too much for it to be summer). But today I didn't go for chill music, I went for more dreamy music. So I chose School of Seven Bells, and shuffled through their music for a bit, then Wired for Light instantly triggered a connection to Electric Bloom (R Ingall Remix), so I listened to some Foals remixes, then moved on to Foals themselves on their Myspace page.

Baking Playlist:

Half Asleep - School of Seven Bells

Connjur - School of Seven Bells

Chain - School of Seven Bells

Prince of Peace - School of Seven Bells

Wired for Light - School of Seven Bells

Electric Bloom (R Ingall Remix)

Gold Gold Gold - Foals

Red Sox Pugie - Foals

Olympic Airways - Foals

Glaciers - Foals

Post Baking Analysis:

I was looking for chewy, and I got deliciously chewy cookies. Slightly crisp edges surrounding chewy (but not gooey) centers. I love oatmeal raising cookies.