Okay, this is the most recent Recipe Thread

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

. There are certain ratios that are constant, a little more or less and your muffin becomes a bar or a cookie, your chewy becomes crunchy, etc. Playing with these ratios can be like a musician riffing on a classic melody.

Okay, I'm filing that one away next to "The difference between soup and gravy is mostly how much you reduce it." Interesting, and it increases my understanding.

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

The second one is harder since I didn't even write down what the ingredients were, just the quantities. Although I did write down time/temp.
1/4#
1/4#
2 C
4
1C
1/2t
1/2C
325 degrees f
20-25 minutes

This will doubtless go astray, but it looks to me like it would make cookies:

1/4# sugar
1/4# butter
2 C flour
4 eggs
1C old fashioned oatmeal
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 C raisins ... the slow oven says they get cooked gently.