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Roxee’s Home Cooked Recipes

tmeal Crisp Cookies
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1 cup white sugar Oatmeal Crisp Cookies
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
Pinch salt
1 tsp baking soda
By Roxanne Prevost 3 cups regular oatmeal
1/2 cup raisins or nuts (optional)
Need a cookie recipe for your next Directions
holiday gathering? This is the one. Preheat oven to 360˚
This recipe comes from 2 generations In a mixing bowl, beat lard or butter
back which is why you’ll notice with brown and white sugars and
lard or butter. Back in the day they eggs until blended. Next stir in flour,
used lard instead of butter as it was salt, baking soda, and oatmeal. Add
cheaper. But I’ve made them either vanilla. Stir in raisins or nuts if you
way and they turn out great, so give choose to. I make some plain, some
it a try and enjoy. with raisins, and some with walnuts;
that way you satisfy everyone. Next
Ingredients make small balls and place on a
1 cup lard or butter
greased cookie sheet. Bake in 360˚
1 cup brown sugar
oven for 10 minutes.

Continued from page 40 as an assistant manager, but his
retirement was short lived. Needing
Cornwall about 1am. It was just to stay busy, Brian became a store
like the Slapshot movie, one of manager with Rexall Drugs and is
our players was skating around the now in Belleville. Brian mentions
ice wearing only his jockstrap and that he still sees a few familiar faces
holding the trophy over his head.” from his days of owning Ladas

Eventually all good things come Independent Grocer, “A couple of
the sales reps that come into the
to an end, and in 1996 National
Grocers informed Brian that they drugstore were coming into the
were converting his Independent grocery store in Cornwall. Anytime
that they come in and we happen to
Grocer store into a No-Frills, with
Brian saying that was not part of the spot each other, it messes up their
daily schedule, because we always
original deal that he had with the
company, and it was time to move spend quite a bit of time talking
on. The Ladas family remained about our days with the Cornwall
Colts.”
in Cornwall for a short period of
time until Brian was contacted by The Colt’s family is one of Brian’s
Walmart. They were getting into most memorable times. As Sam
the grocery business and offered Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart,
Brian a job as grocery manager in once said “If you are feeling down
Trenton On. “We were one of the and sad, sing a silly song, do a little
first locations and we were number dance, and most of all, think of good
one in Canada for the first couple things.” All these years later I have
of years before some of the larger not run out of good things to think
locations overtook us.” Brian retired about that happened when I was
from Walmart after seventeen years with the Colts!”