Carla wrote:

> Chocolate FROGS
>
> 1/2 cup milk
> 1/2 cup butter (or margarine)
> 2 cups sugar
> 6 Tbsp Cocoa
> 1 tsp Vanilla
> 1 cup coconut
> 3 cups quick oats
>
> Mix, milk, margarine, sugar& cocoa in a medium saucepan and bring to a
> boil.
> Add vanilla, coconut,& oats, mix thoroughly and drop from tablespoon onto
> wax paper or cookie sheets.
> Chill until set& enjoy!
>
>
> My family has made these every year for as long as I can remember (at
> least 30 + years) . They are a special treat at Christmas, or at bake
> sales. The bonus is that they freeze excellently . That is as long as
> you don't eat them all right away .

Thanks, Carla! I've saved this recipe, and I'll certainly make it sometime
around the holidays. I might try adding nuts and/or raisins to part of it,
too, just because I like to tinker around and ruin perfection. It's a guy
thing. :-)

Apparently, these are no relation to CRUNCHY Frogs.

From http://orangecow.org/pythonet/sketches/crunchy.htm:

Praline: Superintendent Parrot and I are from the hygiene squad. We want to
have a word with you about your box of chocolates entified The Whizzo
Quality Assortment.

Milton: Ah, yes.

Praline: (producing box of chocolates) If I may begin at the beginning.
First there is the cherry fondue. This is extremely nasty, but we can't
prosecute you for that.

Milton: Agreed.

Praline: Next we have number four, 'crunchy frog'.

Milton: Ah, yes.

Praline: Am I right in thinking there's a real frog in here?

Milton: Yes. A little one.

Praline: What sort of frog?

Milton: A dead frog.

Praline: Is it cooked?

Milton: No.

Praline: What, a raw frog?

(Superintendent Parrot looks increasingly queasy.)

Milton: We use only the finest baby frogs, dew picked and flown from Iraq,
cleansed in finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and then sealed in
a succulent Swiss quintuple smooth treble cream milk chocolate envelope and
lovingly frosted with glucose.

Praline: That's as maybe, it's still a frog.

Milton: What else?

Praline: Well don't you even take the bones out?

Milton: If we took the bones out it wouldn't be crunchy would it?


Bob