1 cup unsalted butter
3/4 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
1 1/2 cup flour
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp cardamon
3 cup rolled oats
1 cup dried cranberries (or other
1 dried fruit)
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream butter and sugars until fluffy. Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies Recipe brought to you by Recipe
Ideas
Add eggs and vanilla. Combine dry ingredients. Add to butter mixture
and stir until well blended. Add dried cranberries. Drop by
teaspoonful onto parchment covered baking sheet. Bake about 10 to 12
minutes, or until lightly golden. Cool. Yield: 5 dozen Oatmeal
Cranberry Cookies
Recipe By : BAKERS' DOZEN (BETH SETRAKIAN) SHOW #BD1A06
From: Jackie Bordelon
Servings: 1 servings
Categories: Cookie; Cranberry; Fruit
The History of Recipes
Food historians have tracked the existance of recipes back into distant history, in fact as far back into recorded history as pharonic Egypt, and maybe further still. Interesting though that maybe, generally, these early cook books were just basic pictorial, hieroglyphic or cunieform instructions for preparing food.
Interestingly, the most ancient recipe in existence, according to Professor Solomon Katz, is a series of clay tablets in the Sumerian language which recount the preparation of bread which is then used to make a drink, quite possibly a form of beer as it is recorded as making those who drank it feel wonderful and blissful. As our culinary historical trip moves on a few more years there are a couple of books which were published in the 14th Century - a recipe book called `Forme of Cury`, and another named `Curye on Inglish`. Amusingly, these two books are not about the indian curry that is popular today, but instead recipes for the types of food prepared for the rich and powerful of the time. In the fifteenth century, knights returning from the crusades brought us many new foods and spices from Arab cooking, including coriander, parsley, and basil. These new spices and herbs led to an increase in books on cookery, many of which are kept safe in private libraries. During the succeeding few hundred years, the wealthy families of Wesstern Europe strove to serve the most extravagent meals, and as a consequence, the best cooks and their recipes were highly sought after. Even so, it was during the nineteenth century that fine cooking and recipe collections reached a high level of popularity. Mrs Isabella Beeton in the UK, and the equally well-known Fannie Merritt Farmer in the US, spent years to collating, trying out, and writing down the recipes that were being prepared for the better households. By the arrival of the 20th century, recipe publications are starting to become popular as a result of more people being able to read, people having more leisure time and being a little richer. Like it or not, the introduction of television brought us celebrity TV chefs and the demand for the accompanying recipe books. Which pretty much brings us to the present day and the invention of the internet, permitting everybody to access thousands of recipes like the ones you can find on sites such as this. |
We hope you enjoy this Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies recipe.
