ManyTracks Homestead

Homestead Cookies

1/3 cup vegetable oil

1/2 cup maple syrup or honey, or brown sugar if you haven't the

others, each makes a different cookie

1 1/3 cups water, milk, or juice)

2 1/2 cups whole grain flour

3 cups rolled oats

Options:

1 - 2 cups dried fruit

1/2 cup sunflower seeds or nuts

1 or 2 eggs

Peanut butter

Spices such as cinnamon, or vanilla

Fruit sauce or cooked squash (in place of the water)

Mix all the ingredients together except the rolled oats,

adding flour until you have a thick pudding

Let set for a half hour or so for the whole grain flour to

soften and, if wheat, develop the gluten

Mix in the rolled oats

Place teaspoonfuls onto an oiled or floured cookie sheet

Flatten with a wet fork

Bake in a medium oven until just done. Don't overcook as these

cookies can become quite hard after cooling, depending on the

ingredients used. But they are great traveling food; no worry about

these guys breaking apart into crumbs.

For another cookie which comes out firm but chewy (unless you cook

them to the almost burned stage which is how Steve likes them):

Applesauce Cookies

1 quart apple or other fruit sauce or cooked squash

1/2 cup oil (it can also be made without if you haven't any)

2/3 cup honey or maple syrup (or brown sugar )

3 cups whole grain flour (at least half should be wheat)

Mix together all ingredients

Let set a bit to soften and bind the flour

Drop by teaspoonfuls onto an oiled cookie sheet (this is not as tough

a dough as the previous cookie)

Flatten thin with a wet fork

Bake in a medium oven until just lightly browned around the edges

Cool flat on a rack

(from "Homesteading Adventures, a Guide for Doers and Dreamers")
Copyright 1997 by Susan J. Robishaw

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updated 10/19/2006