Callan's
Oatmeal Cookies
Start
with
¾ cup of butter
½ cup granulated sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon of baking powder
¼ teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon
¼ teaspoon ground cloves
In
a large mixing bowl, beat the butter until smooth. Add the sugar, brown sugar,
baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and ground cloves and beat until mixed and
smooth.
2 eggs
1 ½ teaspoons of vanilla
Now,
mix in the eggs and vanilla until well mixed and smooth.
Next,
if you have a good mixer, use it. Otherwise
mix by hand.
1 ¾ cups of all purpose flour
2 cups of rolled oats
After
all of the above is well mixed in, then add and mix only enough to distribute
the nuts and cranberries.
1 cup pecans or walnuts
1 cup of dried cranberries or Craisins
Use
a teaspoon to put small mounds of dough on a cookie sheet and bake in a 375
degree oven for 10 to 12 minutes or until golden brown. Some like the cookies softer and some like
them crisper. You decide, or make a pan
of each.
This
will make about 5 dozen cookies, depending on the size of the cookie you
bake. If you have a large enough mixer, you can double this
recipe, cook half of it and put the remaining batter in a tightly covered
container in the refrigerator. Then, you
can bake the rest tomorrow, yielding hot, fresh cookies on both days, with only
one mixing. Happy eating.
Over My Dead Body - Review by Martha A. Cheves
Mike shifted his focus to the
priest. "This big company, uh, Lockey Corporation, got a court order
to condemn Mr. Cranzler's land to make way for a new shopping center. He
was very upset at losing his place. His brother..." He looked
at his notebook. "Ah, Randall Cranzler, found Sydney Cranzler dead
this morning in his house. The M.E. determined the deceased took an
overdose of -." He glanced at his notebook again.
"Digitoxin, a medication he used for his heart. In fact, the pill
bottle was completely empty, and tests showed his body was loaded with it,
probably twice as much as needed to kill him. Plus, the deceased left a
suicide note in the printer output tray, saying he didn't want to live to see
them bulldoze his house."
Syd Cranzler was one of Father Frank's parishioner at the Prince of Peace Church. When Detective Mike Oakley broke the news to the Father and Georgia Peitz, neither believed suicide was even possible. Mike, on the other hand, believed what the M.E. had determined - Syd took his own life. And after dealing with a representative from the Lockey Corporation, with his pushy tactics of trying to get the contracts signed for the shopping center, both Father Frank and Georgia were even more convinced they were right. Now they had to prove to Mike that it was a murder, not a suicide.
I followed Georgia and Father Frank's
leads in the hope of determining if it was murder and if so, who the murderer
was, as well as who else was pushing the sale of the property. As it
seemed, Syd was the only property owner that didn't want the sale. The
others were all impatiently waiting on Syd's contract to be signed. Then
came the real problem. After his death, the property was turned over to a
new owner and the buyers now had to convince the new owner that this was best
for everyone.
As close as I followed, I was still in for
a surprise. Bet you will be too. And now that Father Frank has my
attention, I'll be going back to read Book One, Cleansed by Fire.