brickled wrote:
> hello all,
>
> seems every time we make these, they want to burn on the edges, all the
> while the middle is uncooked and more times than not the entire cookie ends
> up "flattening" (appears the cookie is melting rather than cooking) out so
> far that it just turns out to be a gigantic mess in the pan. the end result
> is so far from what one would expect that it seems unfathomable that we
> actually followed the recipe.
>
> it's the recipe out of the much-hailed "better homes and gardens cook
> book" - we're following it EXACTLY as it is stated.
>
> it calls from 3/4 cups of butter - doesn't say butter or margarine so we
> used the real thing. for some reason we suspect the butter has something to
> do with it. the results were so bad i'm not sure it's accurate to blame any
> one ingrediant.

It isn't worth the energy to diagnose the problem with that recipe, when
it is much easier to try a new recipe. The classic oatmeal raisin cookie
recipe on the Quaker Oats container has always been a hit.