Thread: REC: Oatmeal Carmelitas (the original recipe)

Thanks for the recipe. (my apologies for top posting>


Becca


Melba's Jammin' wrote:
> Skip the recipe with the ice cream topping and flour and try this one,
> the one that won the prize before the Pillsbury home ecs adapted it for
> more convenience‹nwrapping and melting caramels was a challenge to some.
>
> Oatmeal Carmelitas
>
> Recipe By: Posted to rec.food.cooking again by
> Barb Schaller, 7-31-2009.
>
> Serving Size: 12
>
> 1/2 # caramels (32)
> 5 tablespoons evaporated milk or light cream
> 1 cup flour
> 1 cup quick-cooking oats
> 3/4 cup brown sugar
> 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
> 1/4 teaspoon salt
> 3/4 cup margarine melted
> 1 cup chocolate chips
> 1/2 cup chopped pecans
>
> Melt caramels in milk in top of double boiler; cool. Heat oven to 350°.
> Combine rest of ingredients except chips and nuts. Press half of
> mixture into bottom of 11x7² or 9² square pan. Bake for 10 minutes.
> Remove from oven; sprinkle with chips and nuts; spread caramel on top;
> sprinkle with remaining crumb mixture. Bake for 15-20 minutes longer or
> until brown. Chill 1-2 hours, Cut into bars.
>
> Really tasty; really rich!!
>
> Notes: Source: Pillsbury Kitchens, 9/81 (A Bake-Off Winner?) Newer
> versions of this recipe call for caramel ice cream topping. This is
> much better.
>

Melba's Jammin' <[email protected]> wrote in news:barbschaller-
[email protected] on Jul Fri 2009 am

> Oatmeal Carmelitas
>

Thank you Barb.

--
Is that your nose, or are you eatting a banana? -Alan

On Jul 31, 10:45Â*am, Melba's Jammin' <barbschal...@earthlink.net>
wrote:
> Skip the recipe with the ice cream topping and flour and try this one,
> the one that won the prize before the Pillsbury home ecs adapted it for
> more convenience‹nwrapping and melting caramels was a challenge to some.
>
> Oatmeal Carmelitas
>
> Recipe By: Posted to rec.food.cooking again by
> Barb Schaller, 7-31-2009. Â*
>
> Serving Size: 12
>
> 1/2 # caramels (32)
> 5 tablespoons evaporated milk or light cream
> 1 cup flour
> 1 cup quick-cooking oats
> 3/4 cup brown sugar
> 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
> 1/4 teaspoon salt
> 3/4 cup margarine melted
> 1 cup chocolate chips
> 1/2 cup chopped pecans
>
> Melt caramels in milk in top of double boiler; cool. Â*Heat oven to 350°. Â*
> Combine rest of ingredients except chips and nuts. Â*Press half of
> mixture into bottom of 11x7² or 9² square pan. Â*Bake for 10 minutes. Â*
> Remove from oven; sprinkle with chips and nuts; spread caramel on top;
> sprinkle with remaining crumb mixture. Â*Bake for 15-20 minutes longer or
> until brown. Â*Chill 1-2 hours, Cut into bars.
>
> Really tasty; really rich!!
>
> Notes: Â* Source: Â*Pillsbury Kitchens, 9/81

Pillsbury recipes, the staples of musty, old ladies for several
decades.
Luckily that generation is dying off.

> --
> -Barb, Mother Superior

--Bryan

Bobo Bonobo® wrote:
> On Jul 31, 10:45 am, Melba's Jammin' <barbschal...@earthlink.net>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Really tasty; really rich!!
>>
>> Notes: Source: Pillsbury Kitchens, 9/81
>>
>
> Pillsbury recipes, the staples of musty, old ladies for several
> decades.
> Luckily that generation is dying off.

Listen here, you little whippersnapper. This little old lady is still
alive and kicking! (okay, so maybe I am not kicking so high, anymore)


Don't make me hit you with my cane!


Becca

On Aug 1, 6:07*pm, Becca <be...@hal-pc.org> wrote:
> Bobo Bonobo® wrote:
> > On Jul 31, 10:45 am, Melba's Jammin' <barbschal...@earthlink.net>
> > wrote:
>
> >> Really tasty; really rich!!
>
> >> Notes: * Source: *Pillsbury Kitchens, 9/81
>
> > Pillsbury recipes, the staples of musty, old ladies for several
> > decades.
> > Luckily that generation is dying off.
>
> Listen here, you little whippersnapper. *This little old lady is still
> alive and kicking! (okay, so maybe I am not kicking so high, anymore)
>
> Don't make me hit you with my cane!

Pillbury recipes SHOULD HAVE gone the way of the Jello mold and other
atrocities from the fifties and sixties, The Golden Age of Margarine
and Crisco.
>
> Becca

--Bryan

"Becca" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]..
> Bobo Bonobo® wrote:
>> On Jul 31, 10:45 am, Melba's Jammin' <barbschal...@earthlink.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Really tasty; really rich!!
>>>
>>> Notes: Source: Pillsbury Kitchens, 9/81
>>>
>>
>> Pillsbury recipes, the staples of musty, old ladies for several
>> decades.
>> Luckily that generation is dying off.
>
> Listen here, you little whippersnapper. This little old lady is still
> alive and kicking! (okay, so maybe I am not kicking so high, anymore)
>
>
> Don't make me hit you with my cane!
>
>

It does not take a high kick to kick ass. --cybercat, 2009

On Sat, 01 Aug 2009 18:07:26 -0500, Becca <[email protected]> wrote:

>Bobo Bonobo® wrote:
>> On Jul 31, 10:45 am, Melba's Jammin' <barbschal...@earthlink.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Really tasty; really rich!!
>>>
>>> Notes: Source: Pillsbury Kitchens, 9/81
>>>
>>
>> Pillsbury recipes, the staples of musty, old ladies for several
>> decades.
>> Luckily that generation is dying off.
>
>Listen here, you little whippersnapper. This little old lady is still
>alive and kicking! (okay, so maybe I am not kicking so high, anymore)
>
>
>Don't make me hit you with my cane!
>
>
>Becca

I killfiled that asshole Bobo, but still have to put up with his spewings
everytime someone replies to him.