I am looking for a recipe for Peg's Aggression Cookies. They are oatmeal cookies, from her "I Hate to... Cookbook"! My kids and I did these way back in the early 80's. The new "Aggression Cookies" have eggs in the batter, our recipe did not. Lots of butter, brown sugar, oatmeal certainly... then all you had to do was punch the batter with your fists! That's why everyone got into the act, we would just punch and punch. It was fun and they were very good cookies. Please help me find the recipe for the grandkids.
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Aggression Cookies
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Serving Size : 180 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Cookies Desserts
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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1 tbsp Baking soda
3 c Brown sugar
3 c Flour
3 c butter
2 Eggs
6 c Oatmeal
She said it is a Peg Bracken recipe, and Peg stated "However, these are
the best-tasting as well as the fastest, easiest and cheapest cookies I ever
ran into, and I wouldn't say such a thing unless I meant it. The Community
Mental Health Center at St. Lawrence Hospital in Lansing, Michigan, printed
it, in the hope of channeling some energies away from throwing bricks, or
I've had two of Peg's The I Hate to Cook Books that I've held on to since the 60s - (1 pub 1960 - the other 1966 (pulled them off the shelf intending to post the recipe you requested, but "Aggression Cookies" aren't listed in either book - i checked the indices under Cookies, Aggression c, & Oatmeal c,
which suggests that Peg may have written another I Hate to Cook Book later. Does anyone have the bibliography for it?
My two are paperbacks, published by Fawcett World Library. i just noticed that way back then, they cost me all of $.60, & $.50, respectively... WOW!
Thank you for responding.
D
PS: Her recipes were a blessing when i was young & a working mom, but they are even more wonderful now, because they are easy and quick; however, they don't taste the least bit quick or easy - a godsend for those among us elders who live alone, or are cooking now just for one or two...
I first saw this recipe in a cookbook from the late 70's called the " Taming of the C.A.N.D.Y. Monster" by Vicki Lansky the author of "Feed Me, I'm Yours" her recipe had no eggs but my kids loved making these cookies!
Aggression Cookies
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup butter
1 cup flour
1 teaspoon soda
2 cups oatmeal
Mix like pie crust until soft...Beat it...hit it... pound it... pinch it...squish and squash it. Don't quit until
Now flatten one-inch balls of dough on ungreased cookie sheets. Use the bottom of a glass dipped in
sugar to flatten. Bake at 350 for about ten minutes.
Although not listed in the index, the recipe is in the "I Hate To Cook Almanack" by Peg Bracken. You will find it on page 79. Just like Eplitt's recipe except omitting the eggs.
One of my favorites!
I read it in a magazine (Famiy Circle or Women's Day?) back in the 1970s I've lost my clipping - but your submission seems right - although I'm pretty sure there were no eggs in it.
I wrote Woman's Day at the top of my recipe card. And YES, mine also has no egg - just butter, brown sugar, flour and rolled oats and baking soda .
My Peg Bracken recipe for Aggression Cookies does NOT call for eggs! I hope this is the one you remember:
PEG BRACKEN'S AGGRESSION COOKIES (Makes 15 dozen.)
3 cups brown sugar
3 cups (6 sticks) butter
6 cups oatmeal
1 tbsp. baking soda
3 cups all-purpose flour
Put all ingredients in huge bowl and mash, knead and squeeze (the more you do, the better the cookies). Form dough into small balls, midway between filbert and English walnut size, on ungreased cookie sheet. Butter bottom of a small glass, dip it in granulated sugar, and mash the ball flat.
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