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Poor Man’s Cookies
Sharon Lehman, RDN · tasteofhome.com · Original Recipe
Poor man's cookies are similar to chewy oatmeal cookies but are made without eggs, butter or milk. This vintage cookie recipe relies on a handful of pantry staples, proving you don't need fancy ingred
4
chewiness
2
crispiness
1
cakeyness
2
thickness
3
spread
3
richness
2
sweetness
3
complexity
chewy
Ingredients
shortening1 cup (205g)
packed brown sugar1 cup (140g)
sugar0.5 cup (70g)
water0.25 cup (35g)
vanilla extract1 tsp (4g)
all-purpose flour1 cup (125g)
baking soda1 tsp (6g)
salt0.25 tsp (1g)
rolled oats2 cup (280g)
Total dough weight866g
Process
- Mixing
- creaming
- Butter
- browned
- Eggs
- none
- Bake Temp
- 350°F (177°C)
- Bake Time
- 10-12 min
- Chill
- None
- Yield
- ~3 cookies
- Sheet Prep
- parchment
Recipe Radar
How this recipe's ratios compare to the dataset. Gray = population median.
Outlier Profile
Uniqueness score: 2.8. Shows how many standard deviations each ratio diverges from the mean.
Percentile Rankings
Where this recipe falls compared to all 669 recipes in the dataset.
Flour:Fat0.61 (6th percentile)
Flour:Sugar0.59 (3th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar2.00 (75th percentile)
Egg:Flour0 (11th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour0 (4th percentile)
Fat %23.7 (97th percentile)
Sugar %24.2 (82th percentile)
Hydration0 (8th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (42th percentile)
Key Ratios
Flour:Fat
0.61
Flour:Sugar
0.59
Brown:White Sugar
2.00
Egg:Flour
0
Chocolate:Flour
0
Fat %
23.7
Sugar %
24.2
Flour %
14.4
Hydration
0