On Jun 7, 12:06*pm, sf > wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 10:56:55 -0800, (Judy Haffner)
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> > Nancy wrote:
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> > >Real butter would make them crispier;
> > > oleo would make them softer. I haven't
> > > used Crisco in decades, so I don't know
> > > what that result would be like. I use the
> > > recipe on the Quaker Oats container if I
> > > want more flat, crispy cookies. I use my
> > > mom's oatmeal cookie recipe (with
> > > raisins) if I want a puffier one. The QO
> > > recipe is probably too sweet for some
> > > people.
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> > I like the recipe off the Quaker Oats box, but prefer the one that use
> > to be on the Mother's Oats box, and that is the one I posted here. I
> > don't even think they have them anymore, but I remember as a kid, mom
> > always let me dig the dish out that was in the box with the oats, and
> > was always something different.
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> > There are some cookies that are best with all butter, such as cut *out
> > sugar cookies, Spritz, Shortbread, or any rich buttery cookie, but there
> > are some I prefer using shortening in (my recipe calls for all
> > shortening and I use nothing but butter flavored Crisco) but even some
> > cookies are better with HALF butter and half shortening, so they don't
> > spread out so much and get so crispy, which I don't care for in either
> > peanut butter cookies (use all shortening in them also) chocolate chip
> > cookies (use half butter and half shortening most of the time, as don't
> > care for them with all butter) and also oatmeal. I like a chewier
> > texture, I guess, and shortening achieves the 'right' degree of
> > chewiness to my liking. I rarely use margarine for anything, as most
> > never have it on hand.
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> > I think the Mother's Oat recipe is impossible to beat, and is the one my
> > kids grew up on, and still enjoy to this day, as do the grandchildren
> > now, even the ones that won't eat raisins by themselves, but will in the
> > cookie!
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> I guess I have to buy some butter flavored Crisco then because that
> ingredient seems to be the biggest difference between recipes that I
> can see. *I won't let it go to waste because my friend's 90 something
> YO MIL makes the world's best pie crust and she claims she just
> follows the recipe on her can of Crisco.
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please don't buy butter flavored crisco. Use a butter blend
product that has both margerine and butter in it instead. Butter
flavored crisco has a way too pronounced butter "flavor"....it's vile.