Article: Hard-to-find recipe makes easy cookies

Desperation Dinners

Hard-to-find recipe makes easy cookies

By BEVERLY MILLS AND ALICIA ROSS

United Feature Syndicate Inc.

Sunday, January 23, 2000

Lalena Price was desperate for what she called "the easiest recipe in the universe."

"All I want is that simple recipe for no-bake chocolate oatmeal cookies -- you know, the kind the elementary school cooks make with oats, peanut butter, cocoa and such," the reader from Charleston, W.Va., said.

This is indeed one of the easiest cookies we know of -- a one-pot wonder that children crave. And it just so happens children aren't the only ones who crave it. So does Beverly. She's been known to be so desperate as to eat the batter right out of the pot, ...

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