With the more professional look to the site, I thought I’d start offering some free stuff. I just got home from work (okay, so I got home an hour ago, but just put down Strikers Charged) and I saw these bar cookies sitting on the counter. (Whoa. There’s a river in Wii Golf. My daughter’s playing a level I haven’t seen.)

I had a bar.

After the third one, I decided to stop because they’re actually for our church group that hangs out tonight.

But, “Admin-type stuff” happening here: A New Category! Recipes!
My wife makes the greatest stuff and her mom is awesomely experimental. I found the handwritten note and decided to put it online to maybe even submit to a recipe site. Here’s the note (taken from a MacBook…my wife only writes backwards when she paints White Knight pictures of Ringo Starr):

You can tell that even in their humblest state these hermits are awesome.
But why call them hermits? My guess is that you will be driven to hide the pan in a cave on top of the Himalayas where sherpas will bring you milk from yaks.

With that, the recipe follows.

Materials
1 c. butter/margarine – softened
1 1/2 c. sugar
1 tsp. allspice (what is that? like “omnispice”?)
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. ground cloves
3 eggs
3 1/4 c. flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 c. molasses
(1 c. raisins + 1/2 c. nuts) = optional

Procedures
Preheat 325 degrees. (I’m assuming Fahrenheit.)
Grease jelly roll pan.
Cream butter, sugar, spices.
Add eggs, one at a time.
Throw in everything. (Nice.)
Stiff cookie batter. (I think that’s what you’re looking for.)
Cut it while warm.
325 degrees, 25 minutes (give or take with altitude) in a jelly roll pan

Hopefully you like it. If this note corresponds to the food that I am eating, you will enjoy.

The Haiku
These cookie bars will
make you feel like you can climb
a snow-capped mountain

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