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Crispy Caramel Oatmeal Cookies

To try one of these cookies is to have another. There are only seven ingredients in the recipe, and your family will rave about them from the first bite. They taste a bit like caramel popcorn and are just as easy to make.  

If there are delicious oatmeal crisps in the oven, the boy, from the  Get a Bigger Wagon stories, identifies them enthusiastically as soon as he opens the door. His mom discovered this recipe in the early fifties and made them regularly. The boy can’t remember life before these cookies, and he believes it takes four to make a serving.

The Boy's Favourite Crispy Caramel Oatmeal Cookies

Pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees

Combine the following dry ingredients in a large bowl
1½ cups all-purpose flour
1½ cups rolled oats
1 cup of granulated sugar

Melt the butter in a pot with the syrup and water
1 tablespoon golden syrup
2 tablespoons water
½ pound butter
Add
½ teaspoon soda to the butter mixture
Add the butter mixture to the dry ingredients, all at once. Mix well. Using a one-inch scoop or a spoon, drop dough in small quantities onto a baking sheet or roll the dough into balls. Flatten the mounds of dough using a floured flat-bottomed custard cup or your hand.

Bake until golden, which can take 7 to 11 minutes, depending on the type of bakeware you are using. This batch was baked on heavy non-stick bakeware and took exactly seven minutes to bake. Notice that they do spread. 

Cool the cookies, while still on the baking sheet, for 4 to 6 minutes, then remove them to a cooling rack.

Placing cookies farther apart leads to faster cooking and thinner, crisper cookies. Have fun.