Amish Oatmeal Cookies Food

AMISH OATMEAL COOKIES

Steps:

• To grease cookie sheets: Grease cookie sheets lightly. Too much shortening on the baking sheet will cause cookies to spread and edges will be too thin and too brown. Do not use butter or margarine to grease sheets.
• Grind raisins and peanuts in food grinder, using medium blade; set aside.
• Sift together 6 cups flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg into very large bowl or dishpan. Cut in lard until mixture forms fine crumbs, using pastry blender. Add ground raisin mixture, sugar and oats. Mix well., using hands if necessary.
• Dissolve baking soda in buttermilk in small bowl. Add molasses and 3 of the eggs to buttermilk mixture. Beat with rotary beater until blended.
• Add buttermilk mixture to flour mixture; mix well with spoon. Drop mixture by heaping teaspoonfuls or a small ice cream scoop, about 3 inches apart, on greased baking sheets. Flatten each with bottom of drinking glass dipped in flour to 2 ½ inch round.
• Beat remaining egg in small bowl until blended. Brush tops of each round with egg.
• Bake in 375°F oven 8 to 10 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from baking sheets; cool on racks. Makes 4 ½ dozen.
• Farm Journal's Complete Home Baking Book.

AMISH OATMEAL WHOOPIE PIE COOKIES

Steps:

• For oatmeal cookie mixture -- cream butter, sugar and eggs.
• Sift together flour, salt and baking powder and add to creamed mixture.
• Add cinnamon and oatmeal.
• Mix well. Add soda to hot water and add to batter -- mix well.
• Drop by tblspoon onto greased cookie sheet;
• bake 19-15 min in 325* oven.
• For filling, combine egg white, vanilla, milk and 1 cup of powdered sugar.
• Cream well.beat in mixing bowl about 10 minutes.Add rest of ingredients and beat an additional 2-3 minutes.
• Put filling between 2 cookies.
• Wrap each whoopie pie cookie in plastic wrap.

AMISH BAKED OATMEAL

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Combine the first eight ingredients; mix well. Spread evenly in a greased 13x9-in. baking pan. , Bake 25-30 minutes or until edges are golden brown. Immediately spoon into bowls; add milk. Top with fruit and/or brown sugar if desired.

AMISH BAKED OATMEAL

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9x13-inch baking pan.
• Mix oats, brown sugar, milk, oil, eggs, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon together in a bowl using an electric mixer. Pour into the prepared pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until set, 25 to 30 minutes, making sure not to let brown.

AMISH BAKED OATMEAL

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9-by-12-inch baking pan with butter.
• Combine the oats and sugar in a medium bowl, then pour in the milk.
• Add the vanilla seeds, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt and baking powder.
• Next comes the melted butter and the egg.
• Then just stir it all together into a big delicious oaty mess of wonder.
• Plop the mixture into the prepared pan and spread it out.
• Bake for 30 minutes, until set.
• Cut into squares while still warm. Serve with cream, brown sugar and berries.

AMISH OATMEAL COOKIES

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 375.
• 2. Using your food processor, pulse raisins and peanuts until finely ground and set aside. Sift flour, baking powder, salt, nutmeg and cinnamon into a very large bowl. Cut in shortening using a pastry blender until mixture forms fine crumbs. (I have also put this in my food processer and done this.) Add ground raisin mixture, sugar and oats. Mix well.
• 3. Dissolve baking soda in buttermilk in a small bowl. Add molasses and 3 of the eggs. Beat with mixer on low until blended. Add to flour mixture, mixing well with spoon.
• 4. Drop by heaping tablespoons about 3 inches apart on GREASED baking sheets. Flatten each with a floured bottom of a drinking glass. Beat 1 egg in a bowl until blended. Brush tops of cookies with egg. Bake for 8-10 minutes or until golden brown.