Oatmeal Cookies

Today I want to share one sweet recipe that my husband and friends love.
Oatmeal cookies! 

This recipe is super easy and the dough can be stored in wrap paper or in a airtight container for up to 2 weeks. 

 

Oatmeal cookies

Ingredients 

Makes about 3 dozen

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
• 1 cup packed light-brown sugar
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
• 3 tablespoons milk
• 2 large eggs
• 3 cups old-fashioned oats
• 1 cup raisins

Directions

1. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, salt, cinnamon, baking powder, and baking soda. Set aside.
2. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, combine butter with both sugars, and beat until light and fluffy. Add vanilla, milk, and eggs, and mix well.
3. Add flour mixture, and beat until just combined.
4. Remove bowl from the electric mixer, and stir in oats and raisins. Place dough in the refrigerator until firm, about 2 hours or overnight.
5. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Line several baking sheets with parchment paper, and set aside. Scoop out 2 tablespoons of dough, and shape into a ball; place on one of the prepared sheets. Repeat with remaining dough, spacing balls 3 inches apart. Press down to flatten into 2-inch diameters.

Transfer to the oven, and bake until golden but still soft in center, 16 to 18 minutes, rotating the pans between oven shelves halfway through baking. Remove from oven, and place on a wire rack to cool completely. Store in an airtight container at room temperature up to 1 week.

Let us know how much you like these cookies!

Bobbin Lace (Mundillo)

This past February we took a surprise vacation on our beautiful island Puerto Rico. My husband and I were born there, so we try to go and visit our family as often as we can.

While visiting our family, my mom talked to us about a museum she was dreaming to go for years, so we decided to take her to the Bobbin Lace Museum.

In the town of Moca, PR there is a museum of Bobbin Lace (Mundillo in Spanish). Bobbin Lace is the art of making lace for baby and adult clothes. In the 1920's and 1960's it was one of the more important industries in the economy of the town.  The women worked from home or in factories, and the production was exported to the USA, mostly to New York.  Time has passed and this beautiful art is still alive, even when is not the big industry it was in the past.  Throughout the island you can find a lot of bobbin lace makers, mostly in the west of the island.

 

To make the bobbin lace, the necessary materials are bobbins, thread, pins, and a pattern. The lace is worked on a loom or the "mundillo", which is a box with a pad where you place the pattern. This pad should be rotated to complete the lace as the piece is getting done .

MUNDILLOS

 

 The lace can be use to create earrings, house decorations (tablecloth, window curtains, blankets, etc.) and clothes.