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