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Article: COOKIE LOVERS, THIS ONE'S FOR YOU
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- Roanoke Times & World News
- Article date:
- October 22, 2008
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It might be sandwiched between cookbooks at dad's house, packed
in a musty box in my grandfather's garage or rotting in a landfill
somewhere.
Wherever it is, it was the best cookie recipe I ever had.
You might be surprised to learn that it was nothing fancy -- just
a recipe for oatmeal-raisin cookies. Dad found it in a slender
little magazine years ago, and together we whipped up a batch,
letting the oats and raisins soak in oil and other ingredients
overnight, as instructed, before finishing the cookies the next
day.
It was those chewy, rich little gems that made it official:
oatmeal raisin is my absolute favorite kind of cookie.
Over at Crumb & Get It in Blacksburg, husband-and-wife ...