Trouble, Trouble, Boil and Bubble….Oatmeal!

I’ve been offline for the better part of the past year, and now I’ve been trolling zee webz looking for….I don’t know.

I’ve been missing my grandmothers and my sister, and autumn always brings me back to the desire to bake. In particular, I’m looking for the oatmeal cookies that my mother used to make.

The recipe I’m looking for is not cakey. They’re rather thin, dark, crispy on the edges and a bit chewy/fudgy. I’m convinced that her recipe came from a small blue hardcover volume that she used often on Pennsylvania Dutch Cookery.

Anyone wanna share?

Those sound a lot like Anzac biscuits. I wish I had the recipe we used to make back in Australia. These are similar: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/anzac-biscuits
Done right, they are just as you describe -- quite thin, crispy at the edges and chewy in the centre.

These are the closest we have to what you describe. They are thin, crispy and delicious but I'd call them more caramel than than fudge like in the flavour.
I did this copy up years ago but it came out of a pamphlet/book from a great aunt. I think it was a yellow cover.

Here's another suggestion. It claims Pennsylvania Dutch Cook Book - Fine Old Recipes, Culinary Arts Press, 1936 as the source:
https://www.bigoven.com/recipe/lehigh-county-oatmeal-cookies/105893
it has slightly fewer ingredients than Dian's recipe.

They sounds a bit like what my family would call 'chorns' - I'll have to dig out the recipe for those and see if they are similar.

Dian Green wrote:These are the closest we have to what you describe. They are thin, crispy and delicious but I'd call them more caramel than than fudge like in the flavour.
I did this copy up years ago but it came out of a pamphlet/book from a great aunt. I think it was a yellow cover.

Thank you very much, Ladies.

Minus the coconut, I’m pretty sure that this is what I’m looking for. I did a happy dance when I read the recipe, because it seems right. I’m gonna go light up the oven now! WOOOHOOO!