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#16 Oatmeal Molasses Cookies 1956

Energy bars for a long hike.
I lined up all 11 ingredients for these cookies. The array seemed a bit of overkill. Worthy of the label "jumble," these require nearly everything from your baking shelf. The result is hiker-hearty and probably good-for-you, featuring dried fruit (raisins), nuts (pecans, my favorite), molasses and, of course, the oats.

These quickly drop onto a baking sheet, but I'd watch that they don't get too near the bottom of the oven. They were done in 8 minutes at 400 degrees, or 10 minutes at 300 degrees. Bottoms were burned just two minutes later.
Many ingredients in these "jumbles."

These are so crisp (read that hard), I'd flatten them and bake for only 6 minutes if I wanted to serve them to pre-schoolers.

Make them for your next backpack trip, or snack on them for energy.  But I'd make other choices for a special treat.

I could not find this recipe online, but I recommend you find another. There are loads of promising variations on this theme.

Note from Italy: I made the cookies at home, but am posting from Civita di Bagnoregio. My baking equipment and the few ingredients I brought with me were in a bag that did not make our Amsterdam connection. We just received the bags on Thursday. I'll go to Orvieto and look for pignoli today.
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  1. AnonymousApril 11, 2011 at 12:46 AM

    I can't wait to hear about our Made in Italy cookies. Hope you are having fun.

    Best wishes

    Lyn

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