Name: Oatmeal and Dried Fruit Cookies
Ingredients: 2 c Whole wheat flour; 2 c Rolled oats; 1/2 c Lightly packed brown sugar; 1/2 ts Salt; 3/4 ts Baking soda; 1 c Chopped, mixed dried fruit; 2/3 c Corn oil; 1/2 c Buttermilk

It is natural...for us to trust in ourselves. It is so natural, and so confirmed by the habits of a lifetime, that no ordinary difficulties or perplexities avail to break us of it. It takes all God can do to root up our self-confidence. He must reduce us to despair; He must bring us to such an extremity that the one voice we have in our hearts, the one voice that cries to us wherever we look round for help, is death, death, death. It is out of this despair that the superhuman hope is born. It is out of this abject helplessness that the soul learns to look up with new trust to God… How do most of us attain to any faith in Providence? Is it not by proving, through numberless experiments, that it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps? Is it not by coming, again and again, to the limit of our resources, and being compelled to feel that unless there is a wisdom and a love at work on our behalf, immeasurably wiser and more benign than our own, life is a moral chaos?... Only desperation opens our eyes to God’s love.

James Denney

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Fruits, Dairy		Cookies	24	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2	c	Whole wheat flour
2	c	Rolled oats
1/2	c	Lightly packed brown sugar
1/2	ts	Salt
3/4	ts	Baking soda
1	c	Chopped, mixed dried fruit
2/3	c	Corn oil
1/2	c	Buttermilk

INSTRUCTIONS

In large bowl, combine all of the dry ingredients, including the dried
fruit.  Add the oil and buttermilk; mix well.  Roll out the mixture into
1/8" thickness.  Use a cookie cutter to cut 3 1/2" circles. Arrange on
oiled cookie sheets with a spatula.  Bake in 350F oven for 15-20 minutes.
Allow to cool on wire rack.
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V3 #268
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 21:55:47 -500
From: "Bob & Carole Walberg" <walberg@cwconnect.ca>

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