This week my spam folder brought me cookies. I love cookies! Cookies of all kind are awesome. The cookies my spam folder delivered are called English Rocks. English Rocks? What kind of name is that for a cookie? That makes me think of the Cliffs of Dover, which isn’t exactly an appetizing cookie thought.
But in the interests of science and this blog, I gave it a shot.
English Rocks
- One and one-half cups of brown sugar
- Two-thirds cup of shortening
- Two eggs
- One teaspoon of soda, dissolved in four tablespoons of water
- Two teaspoonfuls of cinnamon
- One teaspoonful of nutmeg
- Two and one-half cups of flour
- One and one-half cups of finely chopped nuts
- One and one-half cups of finely chopped raisins
Put all ingredients in a mixing bowl. Mix thoroughly and drop by a teaspoon on a well-greased and floured baking sheet and bake for twelve minutes in a moderate oven.
Normally it’s ‘cream this, wait, add this’ but this time, throw it all in a bowl. Easy enough to do! This is what the batter looks like:

English Rocks Batter
Looks almost like chocolate chip cookie dough, doesn’t it? Except those dark spots are raisins and not chocolate chips.
Using my handy dandy cookie scooper (Fred gave it to me. I think he just wants more cookies) I scooped out the dough.

English Rocks Ready to Bake
This cookie dough made a lot of cookies! I got one short of 7 dozen cookies out of it. They even looked pretty.

English Rocks
Fred said they tasted kind of like oatmeal cookies without the oatmeal. He must have liked them, he ate six at one sitting and took the rest into the office. I think he shared them with his co-workers, at least, that’s what he said he did.
Until next time, toodles!
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