I don't think so, these are more like drop cookies, but very rich and chewy because of the molasses. At 09:21 PM 4/15/2007, Patricia Popple wrote: >Somewhere I have a recipe for an oatmeal cracker. My great grandfather and >great grandmother came from Pictou, Nova Scotia to settle in Wisconsin, >perhaps in the 1870's. My grandmother always made these for her >kids. They were rather dry but very tasty. Wondering if they could be the >same as Oatmeal Cakes. They had to be rolled out and cut with a round >cookie cutter. Would love to taste them again. Excellent with home made butter! >Chippewa Falls, WI >----- Original Message ----- From: "David Reed" <dreed@ca.inter.net> >To: "'Mail List Nova Scotia'" <NOVA-SCOTIA@rootsweb.com>; ><nsroots@ednet.ns.ca> >Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:00 AM >Subject: [nsroots] Oatmeal Cakes > > >> My question is slightly off the topic of genealogy, but is family >>related, I have a recipe called Oatmeal Cake, which my mother got from her >>mother-in-law. Reading Katherine Barber's new book, "Only in Canada You >>Say", she describes oatcake as a Nova Scotia term for a large dense oatmeal >>cookie. I can say that these cookies are different from the oatmeal cookies >>I can get in Toronto. >> >> My grandmother was born in Saint John, NB in 1878 and my >>grandfather was born in Mill Village, Queens Co, NS in the same year. I've >>always wondered if my grandmother learned the recipe from her mother-in-law >>(Helen Atkins, b. 1852 in Queens Co, NS) as well. >> >> The recipe is heavy on brown sugar, shortening and molasses, half >>a cup of each to a cup of oatmeal and one and a half cups of flour. >> >>David Reed (dreed@ca.inter.net) >>Toronto, Ontario, Canada >>___________________________________________ >>nsroots mailing list >>nsroots@ednet.ns.ca >>http://mailman.ednet.ns.ca/cgi-bin/listinfo/nsroots David Reed (dreed@ca.inter.net) Toronto, Ontario, Canada