Subj : Re: Pick Your Own To : Dave Drum From : Dale Shipp Date : Fri Feb 17 2023 00:33:02 -=> On 02-16-23 05:19, Dave Drum <=- -=> spoke to Ruth Haffly about Re: Pick Your Own <=- DD> Take your strawberries and hull them (use a spoon its DD> faster) In large bowl or pan, mash the strawberries to a DD> release their juices. RH> I picked up a little gadget some years ago--rounded spoon shape with RH> teeth around the bowl of the spoon. Deborah, when working at Taco Bell, RH> used a similar one to de-stem tomatoes; they called it a "shark". She RH> saw mine and christened it a shark also. (G) It really works well. That sounds like what we call a spork:-}} DD> That might have sped things along. But, I got pretty good with the DD> spoon. I get the job of removing the stem and white core from strawberries. We have an old steak knife that works quite well. It is serated, and fairly thin at the point end. MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.05 Title: Dave's Oatmeal Cookies Categories: Cookie, Xmas, Tested, Xmas 2009 Yield: 4 1/2 dozen 1 c Butter; softened 1 1/4 c Brown sugar; firmly packed 1/2 c Granulated sugar 2 Eggs 2 tb Milk 2 tb Vanilla 1 3/4 c Flour 1 ts Baking soda 1/2 ts Salt 1 ts Cinnamon 1/4 ts Nutmeg 3 c Oats; uncooked 2 c Raisins; or cut dried fruit 1 c Nutmeats; coarsely chopped (I did not use nuts) Large Scoop - makes 4 1/2 dozen Baked 15 min, then let cool Heat oven to 375 F. (Convection oven will read 350) Beat butter and sugars together until creamy. Add eggs and beat until smooth and light. Beat in milk and vanilla. In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking soda, salt and spices . Stir this flour mixture into the batter, mixing well. Add oats, raisins, and nuts, and mix well. Drop by spoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet (I line my cookie sheets with baking parchment so I don't have to wash up). Bake 10 to 13 minutes (the longer you bake, the crisper the cookie...don't burn them!) Cool for a minute on the cookie sheet before transferring them to a rack to cool completely. (I used small scoop for xmas cookies - made 8 doz small cookies - baked 12 minutes in convection using three trays at a time.) Let cool on pan Excellent variation: Use mixed dried berries (cherries, blueberries, currants, strawberries, etc.) or dried cranberries instead of the raisins. Mixed dried berries are available in health food stores, or in some supermarkets under the Mariani brand. From: Dave Sacerdote Date: 04-13-97 Cooking Tested and will use often - great cookie. MMMMM .... Shipwrecked in Silver Spring, Maryland. 00:37:58, 17 Feb 2022 ___ Blue Wave/DOS v2.30 --- Maximus/NT 3.01 * Origin: Owl's Anchor (1:261/1466) .