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Dinosaur Food
Sep. 19th, 2006 01:21 pm1/4 cup dirt (cocoa)
1/2 cup swamp water (milk)
2 cups crushed bones (sugar)
1/2 cup fat (butter)
2 cups grass (oatmeal)
1/2 cup squashed bugs (peanut butter)
Heat the first 4 ingredients to a boil in an electric skillet.
Add "grass." Remove from heat. Add "bugs." Drop by
spoonfuls on wax paper. Yum!!
(as my aunt put it this morning, my grandmother devoted her life to service-- to her husband, her children (and later grandchildren), and to her community, in that order-- but as I mostly knew her when I was rather young, most of my memories of her are a child's memories, and one of them is the "dinosaur food" freezer cookies she had at one point. I don't know if she made them, perhaps when my cousins were visiting, or if they'd been given to her for some odd reason, but my brother (who was in the phase of being a triceratops at the time) liked them so much that she sent the rest of the bag home with us... well, or maybe she just had no use for them... I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who remembers their existence anymore. But I was delighted to find this recipe, in the middle of an elementary school unit on dinosaurs; it sounds remarkably like what I remember.)
1/2 cup swamp water (milk)
2 cups crushed bones (sugar)
1/2 cup fat (butter)
2 cups grass (oatmeal)
1/2 cup squashed bugs (peanut butter)
Heat the first 4 ingredients to a boil in an electric skillet.
Add "grass." Remove from heat. Add "bugs." Drop by
spoonfuls on wax paper. Yum!!
(as my aunt put it this morning, my grandmother devoted her life to service-- to her husband, her children (and later grandchildren), and to her community, in that order-- but as I mostly knew her when I was rather young, most of my memories of her are a child's memories, and one of them is the "dinosaur food" freezer cookies she had at one point. I don't know if she made them, perhaps when my cousins were visiting, or if they'd been given to her for some odd reason, but my brother (who was in the phase of being a triceratops at the time) liked them so much that she sent the rest of the bag home with us... well, or maybe she just had no use for them... I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who remembers their existence anymore. But I was delighted to find this recipe, in the middle of an elementary school unit on dinosaurs; it sounds remarkably like what I remember.)