Chapter 30
From the pages of Josie’s Recipe Book
Everything But Raisins Cookies
Ingredients
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease cookie sheet. Sift together flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon.
2. In a large bowl, mix together butter, brown sugar, and white sugar until smooth.
Add in the eggs one at a time, beating gently, because if you don’t you’ll ruin the eggs, and destroy the recipe, and you’ll be left with a gigantic bowl of everything cookie dough disappointment that you can’t bake and you can’t eat either.
3. Stir in vanilla. Mix in the sifted ingredients until well blended. Carefully. Do it carefully. If you screw this up and stir too long, I swear you’ll kill it. Do as I say.
4. Using a wooden spoon, mix in the cherries, oats, coconut, chocolate chips, and pecans. This won’t be easy, so put a little muscle into it. It’s hard, what you’re doing. But it’ll be even harder if you don’t do this properly.
5. Drop cookie batter onto sheets, placing them two inches apart. Now, don’t put them too close. If you do, you’ll have to ditch the whole batch. You don’t want that, do you?
6. Bake for eight to ten minutes in preheated oven.
7. While you wait, wipe that stupid tear from your cheek. It’s better this way. You know that.