the great cookie mix-up of 2015

Well, there’s been some confusion in my kitchen.   Actually, a major upset in my baking life.  And I knew you’d want to know.

My whole life I’ve eaten oatmeal cookies, fresh from the oven, that my mom made.  On the recipe card that she used, the cookie recipe is titled “Grandma Gingrich’s oatmeal cookies.”  This has been the go-to cookie for as long as I can remember.

You may remember that last year my cousin and I completed a huge project:  a family cookbook entitled “The Brubacher Family Table.” In that book we made sure that Grandma’s oatmeal cookie recipe was included.  Our conversation went something like this:

Ang: No one’s submitted the oatmeal cookie recipe yet.  I’ll make sure it gets in the dessert section. 

Me: Okay. sounds good.  And  I’ll be sure Aunt Kay’s chocolate chip cookie recipe is included.  That’s the other favorite we can’t forget… 

It was that simple.

Until I opened our family cookbook the other day, and looked up the oatmeal cookie recipe so that I could make Grandma’s oatmeal cookies.  Do you know what I found? Well, I’ll tell you. The recipe in the cookbook was different than the recipe my mom had written down for me,  which we both have been using for time and eternity. And I realized for the first time…

There are two “favorite” oatmeal cookie recipes in our family!  And the one that I thought was the favorite all this time wasn’t even in the book!

It was a cookie scandal, I tell you!  I was out of sorts for quite some time over the whole ordeal!

Okay, maybe its not that big of a deal to most people, but still… I didn’t know what to do!  Which recipe should I make?  What if I like the new recipe better?  What if my old favorite isn’t the real favorite?

After some thought, I decided to make the new-to-me oatmeal cookie recipe and do you know?  I did not regret it one bit!

They were sooooo good. No wonder half of my Brubacher family thought that recipe was Grandma’s favorite.  I may not go back to the old oatmeal cookie recipe…

Obviously, you’ll want to try these cookies.  soon.   They are fantastically delicious!

PS: one quick note:  I used 1/2 cup butter, 1/2 cup crisco.