1 cup flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
2 tbsp shortening
1/4 cup applesauce
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 egg, or 1/4 cup substitute
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/3 cup oats
1/2 cup raisins, optional
Directions
Preheat oven to 375. Lightly spray cookie sheet with Pam. In large
bowl, mix flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. In a separate
bowl, whisk together shortening, applesauce, sugars, egg and vanilla
until shortening breaks into pea sized pieces. Add flour mixture to
applesauce mixture. Mix well. Fold in oats and raisins. Drop rounded
tsp onto cookie sheet 2" apart. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes. Remove
from oven and cool on cookie sheet for 5 minutes. 60 calories and 1
gram of fat.
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Servings: 3 dozen
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Categories: Cookie; Diet; Healthy; Low Fat
The History of Recipes
It is quite feasible to follow the history of transcribed cooking instructions far back into antiquity, at least as far back into recorded history as pharonic Egypt, and maybe even further. In practice though, mostly, these ancient records were just simple pictorial, hieroglyphic or cunieform recipes for meal preparation.
Interestingly, the oldest recipe discovered, according to academics are a few ancient tablets in the Sumerian language describing the making of bread which is then used to make a drink, quite possibly a form of beer as it is recorded as having made drinkers feel wonderful and blissful. Moving on, we find a couple of interesting books which were published in the 1300s ; a cookery book published under the title `Forme of Cury`, and another, similary named `Curye on Inglish`. The titles are a little misleading though, these two books have no connection with the spicy food that we all know today, but instead recipes for the types of meals on the tables of the rich and powerful of that period. During the next few hundred years, the powerful and wealthy houses competed with each other to serve up the most extravagent banquests, and consequentially chefs and their recipe collections were much in demand. Notwithstanding that, it was during the 19th century the formal cooking and cookery books became popular. The Famous Mrs Isabella Beeton in the UK, and the equally well-known Fannie Farmer in the US, devoted much of their lives to collating, trying out, and recording recipes to help cooks of their time. By the time we get to the twentieth century, cook books are in great demand, as a result of better eduction, leisure time and having more disposable income. |
We hope you enjoy this Low Fat Oatmeal Cookies recipe.
