Cooking with Pearl

I had an old post called "Cooking with Rosalie" in which I thought of my maternal grandmothers as I cooked latkes. Today, I was using apples from a tree my grandmother Pearl planted about 70 years ago. The tree sits on my mom's front lawn, and with rare exception has had many bountiful seasons. The tree continues to grow, it's branches become thicker and covered with flaky bark as the years pass. I gathered up a bunch of apples less than a week ago with the intention of making something I could freeze, since apples don't preserve by freezing like peaches do.

I found this apple oatmeal cookie recipe on Allrecipes.com (actually on the android app on my phone.)


Apple Oatmeal Cookies

Ingredients
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 cup shortening
3/4 cup white sugar
2 eggs
1 cup rolled oats
1 cup diced apple without peel
1 cup chopped walnuts

Directions

1.Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2.In a large bowl, cream together the shortening and sugar. Beat in the eggs until well blended. Combine the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt; stir into the sugar mixture until well blended. Fold in the walnuts, oats and apples. Drop dough by spoonfuls about 2 inches onto ungreased cookie sheets.
3.Bake for 12 to 15 minutes in the preheated oven. Let cool on wire racks.

I made a few modifications like adding mini chocolate chips and less butter. In fact, I used half a stick of butter and then added about 1/4 cup applesauce. I like to play around with recipes, but I'm sure that the recipe would be good as it is written. And yes, I sampled several of these cookies and I really like them.

they are cake like and not sweet. The fruit wins the flavor contest here.

One caution with the recipe. There is a metric converter, but the measures were in grams rather than decilitres. You might have better luck converting the measures yourself.