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My first and favorite childhood cookie

nobody@vox.com(Georgia Lynn) — Mon, 26 May 2008 21:56:53 -0700

May I suggest planning a good bit of protein around these lovely treats or you'll feel dumb as a doorknob a day after indulging on these. Sugar will do that to you.

On the stove top in an extra large saucepan mix:

1/4 lb. butter
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup cocoa
1 1/2 cups sugar (or possibly less if you prefer)
Boil together for 1 minute stirring constantly.
Then remove from heat and add:

1/2 cup peanut butter
1 tsp. vanilla
3 cups uncooked quick oats

Stir well and drop by spoonfuls onto wax paper. Allow them to cool (set up) for a couple of hours before enjoying.

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Day late (but fresh) Hackathon cookies

nobody@vox.com(Georgia Lynn) — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:13:09 -0700

My allergies made me feel puny and kinda got in the way of my baking Hackathon cookies. But I'm back today and sending in Amazingly soft oatmeal raisin cookies from a fellow Voxer's recipe. I couldn't bring myself to put in the raisins. But they're full of semi-sweet chocolate chips. Also, I use salted butter by default, so I didn't use as much salt as the recipe called for and slightly less brown sugar. They turned out lovely, soft and a good combination of salty sweetness. Sending 50+ cookies in with Brad tomorrow.

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Sorry, 6A

nobody@vox.com(Georgia Lynn) — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:41:42 -0700

My baking attempts last night failed miserably? because I didn't read the directions right and didn't multiply everything by 2 for 2 batches.

I didn't cry, but I was very disappointed since it's a favorite cookie at our house. They were still edible, (ok the failure was not that miserable) so Brad suggested we lather them in a spoon of nutella for the kids' breakfast. It worked.

Although I prefer sending something in on a Wednesday, because Wednesdays seem like a good day for that, I will try again tonight on a different cookie.

After last night though, I'm all right with failing again. It gets easier :)

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Girl Scout cookies

nobody@vox.com(Georgia Lynn) — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 16:22:11 -0800

The tally for Savannah's Girl Scout cookie sales has reached 207! Thanks is mostly due to Six Apart. I doff the proverbial hat. Savannah is an enthusiastic girl and pumped about the number. Our congregation ordered the other chunk, and we sold 5 boxes between 2 of our neighbors. So thank you all. We hope to have Savannah deliver all the cookies in person, so everyone at Brad's office has a chance to do business with her directly.

Funny thing, the order form had been "misplaced" for a couple of days. The deadline is tomorrow, and today we looked all over, behind dressers, in dressers, the weird places that a baby sister will hide things. I was already working up a very different post in my head, an apology to all those who wouldn't get their cookies, mostly Thin Mints. Even Savannah was following me around looking for the paper saying, "I don't wanna have to apologize to all those people." I last saw it when I'd tallied the amount at my laptop Thursday night. Brad found it today in the couch cushion.

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