Ingredients:
Over the holidays, Spring [1] took care of our friend Lorie's dog (since they couldn't get a kennel in time). For payment, Lorie gave us a basket of goodies to make a nice meal, including the recipe and ingredients for “Fudgie No-Bakes.”
The recipe is straight forward enough and since I like to make cookies, I took it upon my self to make them. Almost immediately there seemed to be a problem. The first instruction is:
1. Boil sugar, cocoa and milk for one minute.
We had no milk. Lorie gave us all the ingredients (on the assumption that we had no cooking supplies, which is a fair assumption) except for the milk. Spring ran out and returned shortly with milk. Then there seemed to be another problem. Again, with the first instruction:
1. Boil sugar, cocoa and milk for one minute.
But you have to look at the amounts:
2 cups sugar ½ cup cocoa ½ cup milk
That's a lot of sugar to disolve in ½ a cup of milk, much less boil it. Spring suggested that I heat the milk first, then add the sugar and cocoa. That worked surprisingly well and in a few minutes I had a nice chocolately sauce. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
I then encountered the next problem:
2. Add oatmeal, peanut butter and vanilla. 3. Stir until all are combined.
That, by the way, is three cups of oatmeal, which soaked up all the sauce and started to crumble before my eyes. Spring then suggested a spash of milk to moisten it up and that did the trick.
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.