Poor Man's cookies

Poor Man's cookies:

I found this recipe hand-written in a box of recipes that my mom had collected. This particular recipe came from a stack of cards written by my great-grandma. Great-Grandma Ruth is legendary in my family for her amazing cooking and for aways having something to eat to give to grandchildren, neighbors, or strangers that stopped by.

Pre-heat oven to 350

Ingredients:

2 c. rolled oats*

1 c. packed brown sugar

1 c. flour (for GF just use a GF flour mix-I used Bob' Red Mill baking flour since Cosco started carrying large bags of it!)

1 tsp baking soda

1/4 c. hot water

1/2 c. butter melted and cooled (you can also just use vegetable oil or you can try apple sauce to give them a bit of a healthier kick!)

Mix ingredients and form small walnut sized balls. Place on greased cookie sheet. Cook until golden brown. This will take about 10 minutes (+/-). Careful- these cookies go from done to burnt very fast! So watch them. Loosen cookies from cookie sheet right away but wait two minutes before transfering them onto a wire rack to cool. They will fall apart if you try to transfer them before the 2 minutes are up- but if you don't loosen the cookies they will be hard to get off the cookie sheet. (If you are not making them GF you don't need to loosen them, just wait the 2 minutes). These are crunchy yummy cookies. Easy to make and fun for kids to help with. I took them to church and all of the kids ate them up and even the Reverend ate a bunch!

*GF note:

Its easy to make these as yummy Gluten free and dairy free cookies. However, if you know you or your loved one cannot handle oats- this is not the recipe to try! If however, your loved one and you can handle oats, check to make sure they are certified gluten free oats. My little brother is not quite sensitive enough to wheat that the possibility of cross contamination is something we worry about much with rolled oats. But that's because we know his tolerance level. To be safe if you do not know you or your loved one's tolerance level make sure you get certified Gluten free rolled oats. They are more expensive but its better to be safe than sorry!