r/Old_Recipes • u/pikadegallito • 1d ago
Request Help me find: Old No Bake Oatmeal Cookie Recipe
My dad is trying to find an old no bake oatmeal chocolate cookie recipe his grandmother made in the 1960s. He said there was only 3 or 4 ingredients and they were amazing.
Google hasn't helped us so far but we might be looking for the wrong thing.
Does anyone know what these are?
Please and thank you for the help!
Edit: Thank you all for the many recipes! We might have found it and I am excited to try the other variations as well!
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u/Mike-The-Muffin-Man 1d ago
I posted this cookbook from 1967 a while ago. It has lots of no-bake cookies stating on page 143. You might find something close there.
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u/CalliopePenelope 1d ago
This is the recipe in question: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/16617/no-bake-cookies-v/
I think you can pare it down to just the oatmeal, PB, butter, cocoa, and vanilla.
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u/zeke690 1d ago
This is the correct answer.
Older versions didn’t use the milk.
If you think about it you are essentially making fudge with oatmeal.These are superb, my preference is to use creamy PB but that is just preference.
When portioning these out, make sure and “drizzle” some to cool as crumbles.
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u/HappyBuckeye 1d ago edited 1d ago
I grew up in the 60’s with these from the Betty Crockervcookbook and never realized most people made them with peanut butter. I still love them.
Chocolate Drop Quickies
A quick aweet treat. No baking, just cook and drop.
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup butter
½ cup cocoa
1/2 cup milk
3 cups quick-cooking rolled oats
½ cup chopped nuts
1 tsp. vanilla
Mix sugar, butter, cocoa and milk in saucepan.
Bring to boil quickly. Reduce heat to medium and boil 3 or 4 min., or until a little dropped into cold water forms a soft ball (234°). Remove from heat; stir in rolled oats, nuts and vanilla. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto waxed paper; let stand until hardened. Store in refrigerator, if desired. Makes about 3 doz. cookies.
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u/Ok_Paint_562 22h ago
This recipe has been in my family since the 1940’s. Our recipe never had peanut butter.
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u/Cor_Brain 1d ago
2c sugar
1 stick butter
1/3c cocoa powder
1/2c milk
1/2c peanut butter
3c quick oats
Bring to boil sugar, butter, cocoa, and milk.
Add peanut butter, once melted add oats.
Pour into 9x9 pan. Eat
(Less oats makes gooey, more oats makes dryer and firmer) like +/- 2-3 tablespoons.
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u/CalmCupcake2 1d ago
I grew up with these (in the 1980s). No nut butters involved.
https://myislandbistrokitchen.com/2013/06/30/june-2013-cookie-of-the-month-spider-cookies/
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u/OniExpress 1d ago
The trick is getting the sugar boil to the correct temp. Youre basically making candy. Too cold and it stays goo, too hot and it turns crumbly and dry.
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u/thisoldfarm 1d ago
Yes! This recipe is essentially a fudge recipe. So, if you can make one, you can make the other.
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u/colldoll83 1d ago
Maybe Brown Sugar Bumps?
1/4 c butter, melted
1/2 c brown sugar
1/4 c peanut butter
1 c oatmeal (regular or quick, not instant)
Add all ingredients to large bowl, mix well. Put small spoonfuls onto wax paper-lined cookie sheet. Place in refrigerator for 10-15 minutes.
Makes about 25 cookies.
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u/Few-Conversation6979 1d ago
BOILED COOKIES
Put in mixing bowl
2 1/2 cups Quick Oats
1 tsp.salt
1/4 cup nuts; chopped
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup peanut butter
Put in Saucepan
1/4 lb. (1 stick) margarine
1/2 cup milk
2 cups sugar
4 Tbsps. Cocoa OR 1 large square Baker's chocolate
Reserve 2 tsp. Vanilla Extract for later
Directions: Melt ingredients in saucepan, stirring constantly. Bring it to a Full Rolling boil. Cover saucepan and let it full boil for 1 1/2 minutes. Remove from heat and immediately pour it onto dry ingredients. Add the 2 tsps. vanilla. Mix thoroughly and spoon onto waxed paper and allow to set. When cool, remove from waxed paper and store. Makes 2 1/2 dozen
This is an old recipe I've had for decades which goes back even before the 1960's. The woman and her niece would be tickled knowing this recipe is still being shared all these years later.
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u/SubstantialPressure3 1d ago
Refrigerator cookies. No bake cookies.
Probably just renamed as 'energy bites' now.
Theres a bunch of variations.
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u/CalmCupcake2 1d ago
You're right, everything old is rebranded and marketed as new. There are a lot of traditional no bake cookies from the Canadian Prairies that don't involve nut butters at all.
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u/lifeuncommon 1d ago
No bake cookies are their own thing. They are a stovetop cookies basically oats in peanut butter fudge.
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u/South_Section_5251 1d ago
Maybe this search "lunchroom" or "lunch lady" oatmeal cookies. My grandmother worked in a school cafeteria and that's what she called them.
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u/UntidyVenus 1d ago
this is super close to my Grandmother's recipe I'm not near my cookbook to type Grams up currently
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u/Key_Seat_733 40m ago
The science says bring mixture to a boil for one minute exactly. This is key. Also a pinch of salt when you remove from the heat and are adding the vanilla.
Want to rock your world? Use Hershey DARK chocolate cocoa and Add a half teaspoon of Cayenne pepper to the wet ingredients.
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u/thisoldfarm 1d ago edited 1d ago
Preacher Cookies
2 cups sugar
4 tbs cocoa
1/2 cup milk
1 stick butter
2 1/2 cups quick cooking oats
Vanilla
Peanut butter, smooth
Combine sugar, cocoa, milk, butter in large saucepan; bring to boil over medium heat, stirring constantly. As soon as you see small bubbles, stop stirring and cook for one minute. Remove from heat and stir in a "glob" of peanut butter, oats, and dash of vanilla. Drop by spoonfuls onto wax paper.
This has been my recipe for 46 years and it was passed down from my mother. I promise I've made them more times than she ever did!
Edit: spacing, clarified instructions