8.9.11

Meet the Real Rickety Uncle

I figure it is only right and good to share Nancy's mother's recipe for Rickety Uncle. I thought about adding it as a footnote to the Hacked Rickety Uncle post but that just wasn't right. A recipe as beloved and venerable as Rickety Uncle (not to mention the cool name) deserves a post of its own.


Rickety Uncle
(from Nancy Simpson)


1 1/2 cups brown sugar
1 cup melted butter (or margarine)
4 cups rolled oats
salt - around a teaspoon
vanilla or almond flavouring or both - 1 lid each


Melt butter and add dry ingredients which have been mixed together. Bake at 350. 15-25. Brown and bubbly.


And that is just exactly the way I got it from Nancy, which I am pretty sure is just the way it is written on the card in her file. I love those kind of recipes - the casual assumption cooks used to have that everyone knew how to cook and what the notes they had made would mean. I have a "cookbook' of my grandmother's that is full of recipes that are very similar; some are absolutely cryptic.


Anyway, enjoy Rickety Uncle or the hacked offspring. The relationship is not hard to find. I think it might be the butter and sugar (?!!) but these are super yummy. Like I said - we absolutely inhaled them!


And Nancy - thanks ever so much again.
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4 comments:

  1. KateSeptember 9, 2011 at 12:55 AM

    Yikes!!!! Haven't heard 'a lid full' since the Watkin's man.
    It MUST BE an old cherished recipe!!! Thank you to both of you for sharing your recipes.

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  2. nancySeptember 14, 2011 at 6:29 PM

    my Gran and my mom would be astounded at how the sharing of recipes has changed over the years!So fun, but I do love those handwritten, spilled upon cards

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  3. TishOctober 3, 2011 at 2:05 PM

    This sound yummy! But I have to admit I have never heard of 'rickety uncle' I am at a loss as to what this is exactly .. I assume cookie??
    I too have a box full of old cherished recipies that I fall back on!

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  4. AnonymousAugust 24, 2012 at 2:09 PM

    The coffee shop down the way has these and they are similar to a beloved cookie my mother made. Rickety Uncle is sweeter and just richer in taste. I am addicted. The shop people have said that they keep getting comments on the theme of "my gramma used to make these". Old world and wonderful. Nelson BC

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