The Best Wartime Cookie You'Ve Never Heard Of (Maybe) Recipe

• 1 cup rolled oats (do not use quick-cooking or instant)
• 1 cup whole-wheat flour
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 3/4 cup shredded sweetened coconut
• 1 cup trail mix (mine was Bear Naked brand, with dried crans, chocolate chips, pumpkin seeds and cashews)
• 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter
• 2 tablespoons maple syrup or honey
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 2 tablespoons boiling water

1. Preheat to 350 degrees. Combine the oats, flour, sugar, coconut and trail mix in a large bowl.
2. Combine the butter and syrup (or honey) in a small saucepan over medium heat; cook for a few minutes, until the butter has melted and the syrup is bubbling.
3. Combine the baking soda and water in a small bowl and add it, stirring, to the butter mixture, which will foam up immediately. Add this mixture to the dry ingredients and mix until thoroughly combined.
4. Drop heaping teaspoonfuls of the dough onto baking sheets. Bake for 12 minutes (though Washington Post will tell you to bake for 7 to 10 minutes, then rotate the sheets top to bottom and front to back, baking another 8 to 10 minutes). Cool until the cookies are crisp.

rolled oats, flour, brown sugar, coconut, trail mix, butter, maple syrup, baking soda, boiling water

Taken from www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2007/12/the-best-wartime-cookie-youve-never-heard-of-1.html (may not work)