My brother, sister and I learned to make these cookies when we were tall enough to stir the contents of a pan on the stove. When we wanted cookies, we made them. Of course, it was the first recipe we taught our children to make.
When we were in Iceland we helped put on a medieval banquet. We made batches of these cookies where we made the cookies really large and called them dragon droppings.
One time when I was asked to bring “something chocolate” to a church thing, I bought paper candy cups and dropped the cookies into the cookie cups instead of waxed paper. They looked very elegant and, of course, I did not have to worry about whether or not they would set properly.
Emmalie tried making these with dark chocolate cocoa. We will never go back to regular cocoa.
Boiled Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 cups sugar
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1/2 cup butter
- 4-6 T cocoa dark variety
- 3 cups oatmeal
- 1/2 cup peanut butter
- 1 tsp vanilla
Instructions
- Place sugar, milk, butter and cocoa in a saucepan and bring to a full rolling boil that cannot be stirred down. Boil for 1 minute and remove from heat.
- Add oatmeal peanut butter and vanilla. Mix well. .
- Working quickly, drop by tablespoons on waxed paper. The cookies will set and can be peeled from the wax paper when ready to eat
- There are occasions when the cookies will only soft set. If that happens, put the cookie sheets with cookies on wax paper into the refrigerator to set.
Notes
- coconut
- raisins
- dried cranberries
- chopped nuts (pecans or peanuts)
- toffee bits
- tiny marshmallows??
- chocolate chips??
- gummy bears??