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Boiled cookies

Recipe found by Sheila Kopaska Merkel

(original source, Headstart recipe collection, Stuart IA, sixties)

Ingredients

1 2/3 cup sugar
one half cup milk
one quarter cup (original recipe only called for 3 tbsp.) cocoa
3 c. quick oatmeal
one half cup peanut butter
1 tsp. vanilla
one half cup nuts (small pieces)

Directions

Put first three ingredients in pan, bring to boil for one minute.

Remove from heat, beat in the last four ingredients quickly.

Quickly drop the cookies onto foil or wax paper using spoons before they cool and solidify.

Children love to help with this recipe.

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hot cross buns

the whole house smells

like heaven

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baking ghosts into buns
looking for the one
truly at peace
glass-case messiah
causing the dead
to rise again

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The waste bin stirs
The bakery silent
In the streetlight gloom
Out it crawls
Crusted with hardened sugar
The bun reborn
A day old and hungry for companionship
Somehow it knows
Creeping into the case
I'm not sure how it does it
Soon cupcakes, muffins, brownies, all
Fall under its sway
Morning, the baker stumbles in
Yawning
Faces a united front
Pastries move in
Oh, they'll open today
It might be a bit late
But it'll be special