General Purpose: Is to inform audience how to make oatmeal cookies.
Introduction: A dying man smells his favorite oatmeal raisin cookies cooking downstairs. It takes all the strength he has left but he gets up from the bed and crawls down the stairs. He sees the cookies cooling on the counter and staggers over to them. As he reaches for one, his wife's wrinkled hand reaches out, smacks his and she yells: "No, you can't have those! They are for the funeral!"
Body of Speech * Walking into Grandma's house just as she is taking fresh baked oatmeal and raisin cookies out of the oven is a memory that is cemented forever. What a wonderful gift! * Oatcakes originated in Scotland and were popular all over the British Isles. The cakes popped into the scene right around the time the Scottish began harvesting oatmeal which was around 1000 BC. Originally the cakes were a staple food more like a pancake than a cookie. The Oatmeal Raisin cake did not officially morph into an actual cookie until about the 19th century when Oatmeal had become a more popular cooking ingredient world-wide. * The very first known record of the Oatmeal Raisin Cookie recipe was found in the Boston Cooking-School Cook Book and was written by Fannie Merritt Farmer in 1896. The Oatmeal Raisin cookie quickly grew in popularity due to it being called a health food.
Demonstration:
1 cup of brown sugar
½ cup of sugar
¾ cup of vegetable oil
¼ cup of water
1 egg
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
3 cups of old fashioned oatmeal
1 cup of all-purpose flour
½ teaspoon of baking soda
Prepare oven to 350. Lightly grease cookie sheet. Beat sugars, shortening water, egg, and vanilla until creamy. Combine oats, flour, baking soda and 1 teaspoon of salt if desired, Add to shortening mixture and mix well, at this time you can add raisins or anything else you desire to mixture. Drop by rounded teaspoon on to cookie sheet. Bake 12-14 minutes or until lightly golden