welcome friends today we're going to look at another post Depression
pre-world War two recipe and today we're working from the Elmvale community
cookbook and we are going to make the recipe for something called health
biscuits we'll get into health biscuits when we get to the tasting because I
think the title is pretty funny but I know where it comes from I think so
very few instructions with this recipe like most of them so we're gonna start
out with the fats and the first thing in is shortening and butter and I'm gonna
cream those together use shortening very often I don't know if there's another
recipe on the channel where I actually use shortening I had to go out and buy
this because we just don't we don't have it so the next in is brown sugar quite a
bit of brown sugar so I'm going to cream that in as well
hmmm butter next skin is an egg okay looking good looking real good
normally buttercream together with sugar and a raw egg I really like but not so
much with the shortening next in raisins because raisins chopped walnuts and the
ubiquitous chopped dates all of those going they're gonna bring a lot of sugar
and flavor and fat to this recipe so stir those in next in our rolled oats
I'm gonna get everywhere they're very hard to mix into something like this
okay the flour gets some soda and some salt just mix that in now two things I'm
gonna switch to a bigger bowl and I need some sour milk
now this recipe says sour milk in today's terms what they were looking for
would be fermented or cultured buttermilk now I don't have any
buttermilk so I'm going to use kefir and kefir is everything that buttermilk
wants to be now the recipe says just to add enough so that it holds together I
don't know how much that is so I'm going to be very careful with adding it in
because I don't want to add too much so just a little bit at a time
stir it in add a little bit more flour add a little bit more kefir and just go
back and forth until I get something that looks right yes I think that looks
pretty good now the next problem is how to cook them it just says drop on
buttered pan and then it doesn't say anything about cooking them so am i
dropping them on the buttered pan and leaving them to sort of dry and harden
like a nobec cookie and we're putting them on a buttered pan and sticking in
the oven and baking them like a regular cookie or a biscuit or am i cooking them
in a frying pan like you would a Welsh cake
my gut is telling me the oven so let's see how this works out so we'll start
with six see how it works out and then bake the rest so these are lovely oak
treats health biscuits red oaks missus red oaks house it's what makes them
healthy I mean usually they call cookies healthy and then they're never owned
because nobody lots of sugar is I don't think I don't think they're health I
don't think they're healthy I think they're we decorate my house yes they're
what we would think of today is an energy ball or an energy bar okay so
it's like a granola bars they do a figure eight me and get me going in my
day lots of sugar lots of fat yeah so you
got you've got sugar from from raisins dates and brown sugar and you've got you
know so it's so gonna be super tasty they will be soft and chewy um yes
mmm-hmm nice and soft it's partway between a cookie and a
muffin top yeah it does have that that very bready yeah halfway between a
cookie and a muffin top now I had a lot of trouble figuring out how it cooked
them because it doesn't say how to cook them um so I baked them for about the
same amount of time that you would bake a cookie but it also occurred to me that
they could have been cooked like a Welsh cake mmm on a griddle yeah on a griddle
maybe um I don't know these are pretty tasty though yeah I like the the spicy
in them hmm there's nothing anymore nothing at all
there's a little cinnamon or anything nothing I'm sitting there right babe so
there is a vanilla as well so you could put spicing in here well soon really I
guess I was looking at the mrs. George's Shh that's next
oh sorry I really I saw that one I got really excited okay what I already had
the stuff out for this one so okay which is why I assumed they were cinnamon but
it does have a lovely flavor so I think this is a good cookie um it's a little
bit different than any cookie that you that you would normally think of as a
cookie um and the ingredients are a little bit
wonky don't listen Glenn don't listen you could even put
some coconut in it oh yeah you could put coconut yet so on on that horrific note
thanks for stopping by see you again soon
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