Weekly Reflection Questions: How does your recipe fit within the Australian guide to healthy eating? The dish seems to be more of an occasional one to eat as it contains a lot of sugar and there are not many nutrients in it. A "Sometimes" dish if you will. It contains fiber from the oatmeal but other than that, there's not much else other than sugar. How did you delegate the tasks during the cook with your partner? My partner creamed the sugar and butter together while I combined the flour, oats, baking powder and bicarb soda in a different bowl. I then added the dry mixture and the choc chips into the butter mixture and my partner then combined them and made the dough. My partner and I both took portions of the dough and rolled them into balls. We then put them in the oven. What aspects of this cook did you find difficult and how did you overcome these? There wasn't any aspects that were difficult as all the aspects were either easy or we already did them before in previous cooks. What aspects of this cook did you enjoy and why? I enjoyed forming the dough into balls because we got our clean hands dirty. That was probably the most interesting part of the cook. What new skills did you learn this week? I learned how to make a cookie batter with choc chips and how to form the dough into balls.
A brief history of this dish: Cookies seem to have originated in the 7th Century AD in Persia after the use of sugar became relatively common in the region. The chocolate chip cookie was invented by American chefs Ruth Graves Wakefield and Sue Brides in 1938. Originating in England, oatmeal cookies have been around since the 1800s. However, it is believed that they were created after the oatcake. Soldiers used to carry oatcakes with them for a quick boost of energy during battle. Rating: 4/5 The cook went pretty well, it's just that the dish was a bit too simple and easy. Also, in my opinion, oatmeal cookies and choc chip cookies are better by themselves than they are together.