Welcome to our annual collection of community holiday recipes. Each year, the Langley Advance Times casts a wide net asking for local people to share Christmas recipes that hold some significance to their family or themselves. This year, there's everything from cookies, pancakes, and fruit pizza to scalloped potatoes and cornbread.
We hope you enjoy this year's feature. And while one of the recipes is provided below, the entire section is available for viewing by clicking into our eEditions here.
Happy holiday, one and all.
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Growing up in northern Alberta, my mother would whip these up as a special treat for me, my brothers and sisters.
Some versions of this recipe add coconut, but she was allergic.
It was an easy-to-make inexpensive, decadent treat.
There was always a scramble to scrape the pot after the cookies were made.
– Dan Ferguson, Langley Advance Times multi-media journalist
No-bake oatmeal chocolate drop cookies
Growing up in northern Alberta, my mother would whip these up as a special treat for me, my brothers and sisters. Some versions of this recipe add coconut, but she was allergic. It was an easy-to-make inexpensive, decadent treat. There was always a scramble to scrape the pot after the cookies were made.
Makes about four dozen
Ingredients:
• 2 cups white sugar
• 1⁄2 cup milk
• 1⁄2 cup butter or 1/2 cup margarine
• 1⁄2 cup cocoa 1 cup coconut
• 3 cups oatmeal
Directions:
• Heat sugar, milk, vanilla, cocoa and butter to boil for 3 minutes only (use a timer)
• Take pot off stove
• Mix in remaining ingredients
• Drop tablespoonful onto wax paper
• Let cool before eating
