Marion got this recipe from Mrs. O’Quinn, who is Uncle Nolan’s grandmother – Carter and Anna’s great grandmother. She was a wonderful lady. Michael Anne and Nolan would bring her to have Sunday dinner with us when we lived on Airline Highway (early 1970’s). She would always bring a delicious dessert – one of the many she shared with us was her forgotten cookies. Mrs. O’Quinn always put butterscotch chips in her cookies – Marion changed the recipe to chocolate chips, but sometimes she still uses the butterscotch. My favorite memory of forgotten cookies is everyone trying to hide them from Jennifer Hart on Christmas Day at Michael Anne’s. They never lasted long once Jennifer found them!
Ingredients:
· 1 cup chocolate or butterscotch chips
· 2 large egg whites
· 2/3 cup sugar
· 1/2 t vanilla
· 1 cup chopped pecans
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Beat egg whites till stiff (add pinch of salt). Gradually add sugar and vanilla – continue to beat until sugar dissolves. By hand, stir in pecans and chips. Drop on ungreased cookie trays with ice tea spoon. Put cookie trays in oven, count to five, and then turn oven off.
Forget about them for two hours. (You might want to loosen them from tray after about an hour... they were a little hard to break free!)
Delicious! Nesi gives them five wags!
For a good laugh, I must show you poor Anna's first attempt at Forgotten Cookies (but I'm happy to say she did get it right the second try!):
What's next? We are going to Baton Rouge for Thanksgiving next week... I hope we come home with lots of recipes for our blog!
Happy Thanksgiving...
Aimee
I'm pretty sure Nesi wags her tail at everything, not so sure that's a good way to judge how good the food was ;)
ReplyDeletehaha love you! I miss Nesi! And now I really want forgotten cookies...
She only wags her tail the exact number of wags as is appropriate for the meal. That's my story and I'm sticking to it! :)
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