Selma's Best Oatmeal Cookies

catarina m · nigella.com · Serves: 12

Against 499 oatmeal cookie recipes

No salt, unlike 86% of recipes and less egg than 78%.

How it compares

Against the typical batch: the median of 499 oatmeal cookie recipes, per 100 g of flour.

No salt at all, where 86% of recipes use some (most of those 1.2 to 2.1% of the flour weight).
Less egg than 78% of recipes: 27% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%.
Oats in the middle half of recipes: 64% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 85%.

Percentile on each ingredient. Shaded ring: the middle half of recipes.

1 cup shortening (or half butter half shortening)≈ 205 g
1 cup granulated sugar≈ 200 g
½ cup brown sugar (I sometimes reverse and make brown sugar the dominant one!)≈ 110 g
1 beaten egg≈ 50 g
1½ cups all-purpose flour≈ 188 g
1 teaspoon baking soda≈ 6 g
1 teaspoon cinnamon≈ 2.6 g
1½ cups quick-cooking oats≈ 120 g
¾ cup finely crushed walnuts (or pecans)≈ 90 g
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
1 teaspoon almond extract (my secret for a richer tasting cookie!)≈ 4.2 g

flour 188 gbatter 980 g

≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.

Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 499 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.

Nearest by baker's percentages: oats, fat, sugar, egg, leavening, salt.