Since the oatmeal reaches its expiration date, I baked some cookies. I took step-by-step pictures, so I'd love to share my recipe with you. This recipe is very simple and easy to follow. It should take you about 30 minutes from start to finish. Happy baking!
Preparation: Butter at room temperature
Egg at room temperature
Chopped walnuts
Instruction:
At first, using a hand mixer, mix the butter and brown sugar. Add an egg and mix it until the mixer become pale and fluffy.
Add the almond powder and mix it in.
Add the cake flour and the baking powder when the mixture looks creamy. Use a rubber spatula and mix the dough.
Add the oatmeal and mix with the dough.
Add the raisins, the chocolate chips and the walnuts and mix them.
Roll the dough into about 22 small balls, flattening each slightly.
Baking:
Bake them at 170℃ around for 18 minutes.
Ingredients:
120g unsalted butter
100g brown sugar ( I add 60g brown sugar, but if you like sweet cookies, 100g is perfect)
1 egg
30g almond powder
90g cake flower
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
100g oatmeal
40g chocolate chip
30g walnut
30g raisin
Enjoy your homemade cookies!
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The title has a typo. "Cookies"
Those look delicious! I didn't know that oatmeal has an expiration date. I should probably throw away the oatmeal that I have in my pantry :)
Thank you for pointing out the mistake in my title. I've fixed it. Before throwing it away, why not give it a try and make some cookies?
I would like to ask you a question, Yumi @yumiyumayume . My character Aoi, the craftswoman, has been released from prison and will be visiting Rodrigo in prison. Is it possible for her to bring this kind of cookies to him in prison? It is true that chocolate started to be known in Japan in the 19th century but it can be substituted by another ingredient. You tell me and thank you very much.
I guess probably it was impossible back then because women were treated like trash. They were ignored, especially they weren't from high class. They weren't allowed to have their own opinions or wills. However, your story is a fantasy based on history, so I encourage you, @druida! But not cookies. They weren't existed in the period.
@yumiyumayume : I am designing the encounter between Aoi, released from prison, and Rodrigo. She visits him in prison but I have to design this visit. The craftswoman, as a woman, could not freely visit a samurai simply because of a social caste problem. It is easy to interpret the characters in today's perspective but this is not how it worked in 17th century Japan.
From your cookies recipe I had thought of incorporating this ingredient into the scene. I've been investigating other possibilities: senbei or some nanban-gashi could be other alternatives... I'm working on it. To be continued.
@druida It sounds fastinating! How about Aoi making botamochi? https://journaly.com/post/42197 It might be different from the modern version, but during the Edo period, mochi was considered a luxury food that ordinary people couldn’t easily afford.