I can't find the recipe right now, but that's probably a good thing! They may look sad, blurry, and misshapen, but I would love to cram at least 3 of these in my face with an ice cold milk chaser!
My mother asked me for many years to help her search for a cookie recipe that would be similar to my Grandma Myrna's oatmeal cookies. Thin, crispy, chewy...to die for. This, is it. THESE are THE ONES!!!
Let me explain something here. I don't know if you can fully appreciate the gravitas of the search for this recipe, possibly because I said it was one similar to my grandma Myrna's. That may lead you to believe I had other relatives from whom I could seek advice on the matter, but I couldn't. This woman was not my grandmother, just a lady that babysat me and my brother as kids. I did reach out to one of her biological grandkids to ask if she knew of the recipe, but she was a few years younger than me, living and working in a resort in Mexico, she had no tangible resources to call upon either, but I feel should would have made a better effort if she wasn't having the time of her life. Tanned, toned, muscular bodies, carefree beach fun, never-ending summer...yeah, she's not looking for cookie recipes. She already knows the only one she needs. Ahem.
Previously, I had googled them many times, but being in Kansas, hearing my mother say they were 'paper thin' I searched this time for 'paper thin oatmeal cookies' and hot damn! How hard was that? Jeez!
I can't say I found her recipe exactly, but it's close enough. The difference between these and other oatmeal cookie recipes? This one calls for 4 sticks of unsalted butter! EUREKA! That's not what makes them so damn good, well, it is, but, it's also what makes them so damn thin. Duh! Of all the puffed up, thick, gummy OR hard as a gingersnap and tastes-like-cardboard oatmeal cookies I have made, I probably could have made all of them divine with 4 sticks of butter!
So good, and the recipe makes a million so no one will know you already gobbled up half of them. But, take heed...making these could be extremely dangerous. Consider the buddy system, so if you do eat the whole batch, at least you have someone to split the calories and shame with. You think I'm kidding. I'm not.
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