Page 48 in the old book / page 81 in the new book
You know, a year or so from now, I'll be wishing for the good old days when all I had to do was mix up some dough and drop it on a cookie sheet. Making cookies every Sunday evening has become my routine since I started Mondays with Maida, and a rather painless one at that. I still have months of "easy" cookies to go - there are 17 more drop cookies - but then the degree of difficulty will start to inch up. There will be many more simple cookies, but multi-layered bar cookies will make occasional appearances amidst the more ordinary brownies, then icebox cookies, and then *biting my knuckles* rolled cookies. Yes, cookies will be taking a bigger bite out of my weekend when I finish up this chapter, so I will give thanks for the drop cookie...in all its simplicity!
Maida Heatter describes these cookies as traditional cookie jar cookies and I would characterize them that way as well. They are mildly spiced cookies that are crunchy on the outside, somewhat cakey on the inside, and loaded with walnuts and raisins. They are not unusual in any way, but they are very good.
And now a word from the cookie panel...
Suzanne: "BOO -- Raisins! The nuts were great and the cookie was crunchy. I'm not a fan of spice/raisin cookies, so I'd rate this one as a 3. I'm showing my age, but I've decided to rate the cookies as the kids did on 'American Bandstand' in the 1950 - 1960's. Rating -
Denny: "The 'Route 7 Raisin Nut Cookies' were very good. Rating - 4"
Laura: "Yummy and crunchy! I love the cinnamon and nutmeg flavors. Rating - 4"
Phil: "Not sure what to expect from a Route 7 cookie. Figured on some variant of road food - ample, stick to your ribs and average. Was pleasantly surprised by this combination of raisins and nuts in a slightly sweet, perfect puffy size cookie (a little more than a bite size but not too big). Rating - 3.5"
Overall rating by the panel -
*** UPDATE *** Late breaking news...I was talking with Suzanne today and asked about the American Bandstand reference in her comments because I didn't really get it. Turns out she had forgotten that I wanted her to provide a rating on a scale from 1 to 5 and was (she thought) providing an unsolicited numerical rating on a scale of 1 to 10, which she explained through her reference to American Bandstand. So, she didn't really mean to give the cookies a 3. On a scale of 1 to 5, she felt they only merited a 1.5, making the revised average for the panel 3.3.
Next week – Nut-Tree Walnut Jumbles
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1 comment:
Hi Emily - these were good, but there's another recipe later in the book that is a real favorite of mine (Cobblestones) that I would choose over these if I was in the mood for raisins, walnuts and spice.
There seem to be (at least) three camps of people when it comes to cookies - 1) those that cannot stand raisins; 2) those that cannot stand nuts; and 3) those that like just about any cookie (thank goodness!). There are no nut-haters on the panel, but there are some in my office. I'm afraid the nut and raisin haters are going to be pretty unhappy in the coming weeks!!
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