Amish Oatmeal Crisp Cookies

Amish Oatmeal Crisp Cookies

By Kevin Williams

When I was visiting with the "Wickey sisters" in southeastern Indiana's Amish community, I asked each of the Wickey sisters and their mother to pick their favorite recipe out of their family cookbook, and one of the sisters chose Oatmeal Crisp Cookies, which are some of a chocolately cross between an oatmeal and chocolate chip cookie.  It was a good  cookie, I got to sample one.  The recipe is below, reprinted from their cookbook "Country Home Cooking."   There aren't any cookbooks left, but they may reprint. I'll keep you posted. I LOVED the cookbook because it was so authentic, not just a collection of passed around recipes, but hundreds of THEIR recipes.

Amish Oatmeal Crisp Cookies

 

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Prep time

10 mins

Cook time

10 mins

Total time

20 mins

 

Serves: 3 dozen

Ingredients

• 2 cups white sugar
• 2 cups brown sugar
• 2 cups lard
• 4 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons soda dissolved in a little water
• 3 cups flour
• 6 cups oatmeal
• 1 cup chocolate chips

Instructions

1. Cream together sugars and lard.
2. Add eggs after salt and vanilla have been added.
3. Stir well
4. Sift flour and soda.
5. Mix well.
6. Add the rest.
7. Drop by tablespoon onto ungreased cookie sheet spaced 2 inches apart
8. Bake 8 - 10 minutes in 375 oven.

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