hard to tell without the whole recipe. If butter is too blame, I'd say it
is because you are using too much butter and then baking too long. wendy
----- Original Message -----
From: "brickled" >
Newsgroups: rec.food.baking
To: >
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 3:03 PM
Subject: oatmeal raisin cookie trouble


> 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.
>
> please help - my kids are losing confidence in me
>
>
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