The No-Bake Cookie 2.0 Recipe: An Even Simpler Recipe for a Simple Man
And a very quick look at the 1930s classic “Modern Cook Book.”
Some will remember the No-Bake Cookie recipe I published a few months back – an easy-to-prepare batch of crowd-pleasing cookies. Of course, there will always be different approaches for making no-bake treats, and many have claimed that the Meghan Method™ produces a better version of the cookies. It is a streamlined take, one where you can opt for a more vintage 1950s non-organic ingredients list. There’s a valid argument that an old-school approach suits these cookies better, and I can’t objectively claim that the result is any worse than my variant. Therefore, try both, and judge for yourself.
Ingredients
2 cups sugar
1 stick of margarine
½ cup whole milk
2 tbsp cocoa
½ cup peanut butter
3 cups one-minute oats
The Steps
Bring sugar, margarine, milk, and cocoa to a boil for one minute.
Remove from heat, and melt peanut butter into the mixture.
Stir in oats and spoon onto wax paper.
Allow the cookies to cool for 30 minutes to an hour, and they should be ready to serve. Cooking time is about fifteen minutes.
On “Modern Cook Book”
This classic take on the no-bake cookie made me pull out our copy of K. Camille Den Dooven’s Modern Cook Book (1939). I had hoped to find a bunch of information about the book online, but, frankly, there isn’t a whole lot there – it’s just a cookbook written by a guy who at some point served as the (presumably German) Kaiser’s chef. (No relations.)
Anyway, the book itself has hundreds of recipes, all easy to follow, so it still has a place, at least if you want to prepare a vintage homemaker-style meal. I’m not sure how many would follow this particular daily menu plan, of course…
A Monday luncheon sounds a bit ambitious these days.
You can get the book from Amazon, but I wouldn’t be surprised if you found a copy in your grandparents’ bookshelf.
Bryan Pitts sent us a scolding message to point out that our “Butternut Squash with Cumin“ post omitted a historically significant event:
I CANNOT believe that this week’s newsletter didn’t include a still frame from the famous cumin challenge
which, maybe it was paprika, but would readers really have known
What Bryan is referring to is the challenge where a participant had to swallow a tablespoon of cumin, which, of course, is literally impossible. Yours truly made a valiant attempt in a 2007 episode of the beloved Remi and Stefan Do Spokane podcast, where cumin was substituted with paprika due to logistical issues. The results were mixed.
We apologize for this egregious error.
