3
Jan

Old Fashioned Oatmeal Cookies

— by Tiffany in Recipes

The ingredients:
1/2 cup vegetable shortening or coconut oil
1/4 cup molasses
1/2 cup maple syrup
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 and 1/4 cup spelt flour (if you can’t eat spelt due to a wheat
allergy substitute 1/2 cup plus 2 Tbsp. oat flour and 1/2 cup
plus 2 Tbsp. barley flour)
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. aluminum-free baking powder
1 cup oats
1/2 cup raisins

The process:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Beat shortening or coconut oil
with molasses and maple syrup in a large mixing bowl. Add
vanilla extract. Combine splet flour, salt, cinnamon, baking
soda and baking powder. Add to mixing bowl. Add oats, stir,
then add raisins. Drop by heaping teaspoons onto a lightly
greased cookie sheet and cook 10-12 minutes until cookies
are browning around the edges. Let cool on cookie sheet
before transferring to plate with a spatula.

From “The Whole Foods Allergy Cookbook: Two Hundred Gourmet & Homestyle Recipes for the Food Allergic Family” by Cybele Pascal (Vital Health Publishing, $18.95) Copyright © 2006

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

3 Comments

  • Erin

    Hi Tiffany,
    The recipe looks good and I guess they are using shorting or coconut oil because of the allergy thing. There is so much information out now about how bad hygrogenated oils are for you that I would stay away from using shortening. Of course butter would be better but if a person has a dairy allergy, they could not use the butter.

    I guess for the allergic person the better option would be the coconut oil…but, you must be careful about the kind you use. The best coconut oil is one that is certified organic and the way it’s processed is important also. There is tons of information on the web about coconut oil these days if you put that in your google search engine you can find more information on that.

    Warm regards,
    Erin

  • http://www.daveshealthbuzz.com/allergy-relief David

    Thanks for the recipe!

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  • Diana

    Just made these cookies. Absolutely wonderful!!