On 1/28/2013 2:52 AM, notbob wrote:
> On 2013-01-28, dsi1 > wrote:
>
>> over a period of time. If taking a bite out of a cookie and stuffing it
>> in your pocket or glovebox is your thing, this is your huckleberry!
>
> As I figured. Very little shortening. That's what makes cookies
> soft. The more, the softer, the less, the harder. They didn't call
> it hard tack for nothing. Zero fat.
>
> nb
>

It's no-frills depression era cooking. I guess the idea was that with
one cookie and a cup of joe, you could have yourself a meal. You might
be able to leave out the fat altogether. As I recall, the cookies have a
distinct lack of salt and vanilla - the original ones, at least.

Of course, you'd have to be nuts to bake something like this - or a
old-time local. It would mean that we were in deep kimchee if people
started cooking like this again.