LEHIGH COUNTY OATMEAL COOKIES

           1-½ cups oatmeal              3 tbsp melted butter
           ½ cup sugar                   1 beaten egg
           ½ tsp baking powder           ½ tsp almond extract
           ¼ tsp salt                    

Stir the oatmeal, sugar, baking powder, and salt together. Thoroughly mix in the butter, egg, and almond extract. Drop by teaspoons onto a greased cookie sheet and bake at 350° for five to ten minutes. Let cool for about one minute and remove carefully and quickly to cooling rack.

Adapted from “Pennsylvania Dutch Fine Old Recipes Cook Book” (1936). Discover more vintage recipes at the Padgett Sunday Supper Club (clubpadgett.com)!