Anyone have the 1950's Quaker Oatmeal Cookie recipe? (ingredients, brown sugar, cinnamon)

[Townandcountrygal]

Anyone have the 1950's Quaker Oatmeal Cookie recipe? It's the one with NO brown sugar, only a few basic ingredients and produces a very cake-like fat cookie. (The Quaker company couldn't help me.)

[Jaxson]

Here's a link for it

Quaker Oatmeal Cookies 1950*recipe - from the Gails Recipes Family Cookbook

I just reread your post I don't know that I've ever read a recipe with no brown sugar in it for oatmeal cookies.

[Bulldogdad]

I have a collection of old cookbooks from the 1950s and a recipe card as well for Quaker Oatmeal cookies they all have brown sugar. You piqued my interest so I looked and found all had brown sugar. That I might be a recipe that someone in your family created. That's why I tried to get as many written down from all my grandparents before they started passing.

[AnonChick]

I've never heard of any oatmeal cookie without brown sugar in it. Quaker or otherwise. I make a dough that you place on waxed paper and roll it up into a sausage, then slice off however many slices you want to make cookies with. You freeze the rest, and just take it out and slice to order.

[Blinx]

I found one in my Home Institute Cookbook from 1947. It's not Quaker's recipe, but it doesn't have brown sugar. I've never made this recipe, so you can test it for us if it sounds interesting.

Oatmeal Hermits
1 1/2 C sifted all-purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cinnamon
2 C rolled oats
1 C seeded raisins (optional)
1/2 C butter or margarine
1 C sugar
2 eggs
1/2 C milk

• Sift together flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon
• Stir in oatmeal and raisins
• Cream butter
• Gradually beat in sugar, then eggs
• Stir in flour-oatmeal mixture
• Drop by teaspoons onto greased baking sheet
• Bake at 375° for about 15 minutes
• Yield: 3 dozen

[Townandcountrygal]

Originally Posted by Blinx

I found one in my Home Institute Cookbook from 1947. It's not Quaker's recipe, but it doesn't have brown sugar. I've never made this recipe, so you can test it for us if it sounds interesting.

Oatmeal Hermits
1 1/2 C sifted all-purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cinnamon
2 C rolled oats
1 C seeded raisins (optional)
1/2 C butter or margarine
1 C sugar
2 eggs
1/2 C milk

• Sift together flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon
• Stir in oatmeal and raisins
• Cream butter
• Gradually beat in sugar, then eggs
• Stir in flour-oatmeal mixture
• Drop by teaspoons onto greased baking sheet
• Bake at 375° for about 15 minutes
• Yield: 3 dozen

Thank you! This sounds like the recipe I remember but better because the other one called for shortening instead of butter.

[Townandcountrygal]

Originally Posted by Bulldogdad

I have a collection of old cookbooks from the 1950s and a recipe card as well for Quaker Oatmeal cookies they all have brown sugar. You piqued my interest so I looked and found all had brown sugar. That I might be a recipe that someone in your family created. That's why I tried to get as many written down from all my grandparents before they started passing.

Yes, most all use brown sugar. I copied down the recipe from a Quaker Oats canister when I was a kid--maybe *I* forgot the brown sugar? Great idea to get recipes from grandparents before too late.

[Townandcountrygal]

[quote=Blinx;29208843]I found one in my Home Institute Cookbook from 1947. It's not Quaker's recipe, but it doesn't have brown sugar. I've never made this recipe, so you can test it for us if it sounds interesting.

Oatmeal Hermits
1 1/2 C sifted all-purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cinnamon
2 C rolled oats
1 C seeded raisins (optional)
1/2 C butter or margarine
1 C sugar
2 eggs
1/2 C milk


Okay, tried this recipe. The appearance and texture is right but flavor not quite as I remember from my original recipe. Think a pinch of cloves might have been in my (lost) recipe and the taste of these was a bit, ah, "cardboardy"--I used Walmart's brand of oatmeal --next time will use Quakers!

[Blinx]

Originally Posted by Townandcountrygal

Okay, tried this recipe. The appearance and texture is right but flavor not quite as I remember from my original recipe. Think a pinch of cloves might have been in my (lost) recipe and the taste of these was a bit, ah, "cardboardy"--I used Walmart's brand of oatmeal --next time will use Quakers!

Thanks for testing it! Sorry it was a little bland. Can they be redeemed with a little flavored icing?? Cloves would really spice them up -- let us know how those turn out!

[playonetoo]

Found in my great aunt's recipe box:

1/2 butter or margarine
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1/4 cup milk
1-1/2 cup flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1 cup raisins
1-2/3 cup rolled oats