Oatmeal cookies have always carried with them the unattractive whiff of the “healthy option” for me. They seemed like the kind of thing you’d get in your packed lunch instead of a Penguin. Those raisins, which so easily could have been chocolate chips yet inexplicably weren’t, were the final insult for anyone hoping for an actual treat.
Reader, I’ve been unfair. Turns out oatmeal cookies can be utterly delicious … as long as you live near an American bakery or make them yourself. Good as we are at many and various oat biscuits, I’ve never had a British cookie to match up to the recipes I’ve tried this week, all of which hail from across the pond, where the idea as we know it seems to have appeared around the same time as commercial oat brands.
