1 1/2 cup sifted all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
2/3 cup shortening, soft
1 egg
1/4 cup milk
1 cup mashed bananas
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
2 cup quaker oats, uncooked - (quick or o, ld-fashioned)
Directions
Sift together flour, baking powder, soda, salt and cinnamon into
bowl. Add sugar, shortening, egg, milk and bananas. Beat until
smooth, about 2 minutes. Stir in walnuts and nuts.
Drop by teaspoonfuls onto greased cooky sheets. Bake in preheated
moderate oven (375 F.) 12 to 15 minutes.
Source: Our Favorites for family and friends Reprinted with
permission from The Quaker Oats Company Electronic format courtesy of
Karen Mintzias
Servings: 60 cookies
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Categories: Banana; Cookie; Fruit; Nut
The History of Recipes
Historians have proved the existence of recipes far back into ancient history, in fact as far back into recorded history as early Egypt, and possibly even further than that. Interesting though that is, mostly, these old cookbooks were just very simple pictorial instructions for meal preparation.
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