Cookies!🍪

[Closet Fermenter]

The wife said that she wanted to do something with the package of chocolate chips in the freezer. I suggested cookies. My favorite has always been oatmeal cookies. However, we found out awhile back that we prefer steel cut oats to flaked oatmeal, so no flaked oatmeal in the house.
I suggested that we just use flaked barley instead; I have a whole bucket of that! She found a recipe, but it also called for barley flour in addition to the flaked barley. It was a true “Hold my beer” moment.
I brought in the bucket of flaked barley, set up my grain mill and in a few minutes had her the necessary barley flour.
They are great!

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

The wife said that she wanted to do something with the package of chocolate chips in the freezer. I suggested cookies. My favorite has always been oatmeal cookies. However, we found out awhile back that we prefer steel cut oats to flaked oatmeal, so no flaked oatmeal in the house.
I suggested that we just use flaked barley instead; I have a whole bucket of that! She found a recipe, but it also called for barley flour in addition to the flaked barley. It was a true “Hold my beer” moment.
I brought in the bucket of flaked barley, set up my grain mill and in a few minutes had her the necessary barley flour.
They are great!

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I LOVE cookies! Those look really good!!

 

[Kickass]

As the happy husband of a phenomenal cookie baker, I’ll be adding pictures of my wife’s amazingly baked sugary disks.

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

As the happy husband of a phenomenal cookie baker, I’ll be adding pictures of my wife’s amazingly baked sugary disks.

You're a lucky person!

 

[Closet Fermenter]

Alas, the cookies are gone, but not forgotten! I can tell you now that I couldn’t tell one bit of difference between oatmeal cookies and these barley cookies. Since I buy barley in bulk for our house favorite, Irish Dry Stout, the new favorite cookie is barely cookies!

If you’re looking for other ways to utilize barley in the kitchen, (you know; justifying that trip to the LHBS), my meatloaf recipe calls for 1cup of uncooked flaked oats. The last couple times that I’ve made it, I used flaked barley instead.

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

Alas, the cookies are gone, but not forgotten! I can tell you now that I couldn’t tell one bit of difference between oatmeal cookies and these barley cookies. Since I buy barley in bulk for our house favorite, Irish Dry Stout, the new favorite cookie is barely cookies!

If you’re looking for other ways to utilize barley in the kitchen, (you know; justifying that trip to the LHBS), my meatloaf recipe calls for 1cup of uncooked flaked oats. The last couple times that I’ve made it, I used flaked barley instead.

That's encouraging!

Flaked barley, do you think just milling some left over grains would work just as well?

I wish someone would make cookies for me but I'm not unable to break out the big bowl and mess up the kitchen. I make my own pizza crust so I figure cookie dough isn't that difficult.

 

[Closet Fermenter]

That's encouraging!

Flaked barley, do you think just milling some left over grains would work just as well?

I wish someone would make cookies for me but I'm not unable to break out the big bowl and mess up the kitchen. I make my own pizza crust so I figure cookie dough isn't that difficult.

The only issue I can think of is that most of the whole grains still have the husk on them. We really like the roasted barley taste in the Irish stout, so I am tempted to try some in a bread recipe. We only purchased our grain mill back in December, so I have yet to remove the regular milling plates and try out the dehusking plates.
However, if you’re ok with the husks in spent grain bars, they might not be a problem for you in cookies either. I might have to give this a try myself.

 

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Irish Dry Stout

Something tells me that those cookies and that beer might go well together.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

https://www.craftbeer.com/recipes/white-beer-cookies

Kind of a long process reducing the beer, but interesting outcome. I’ll tell you I’m not in a hurry to make them again. Stout cakes and brownies are much more enjoyable. LOL

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

There are some recipes online for cookies made with beer.

 

[Skeeter686]

My wife has made Guinness ice cream a couple times. I found a recipe for chocolate stout cookies once, and I'm really wanting her to make both, so that I can make myself ice cream sandwiches!

 

[HBT_Admin]

My wife has made Guinness ice cream a couple times. I found a recipe for chocolate stout cookies once, and I'm really wanting her to make both, so that I can make myself ice cream sandwiches!

How was the ice cream? That sounds great.

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

How was the ice cream? That sounds great.

I was wondering too, you think it's dark like a stout beer too?

The Stroh brewery made ice cream during the prohibition years. I'm sure it didn't taste like their beer.

 

[balrog]

Those cookies look like they ship well.
Let me know if you need my shipping address.

 

[Skeeter686]

I was wondering too, you think it's dark like a stout beer too?

The Stroh brewery made ice cream during the prohibition years. I'm sure it didn't taste like their beer.

The ice cream was tasty, but I wouldn't say it was like drinking a Guinness. The last batch seemed very vanilla forward, which may have been due to the particular beans my wife used.

I believe this is the recipe we used: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/220585/guinness-ice-cream/

 

[Miraculix]

Another way of utilising barley is turning it into the staple Himalayan food tsampa. Roast it till it smells nutty, without oil, in a pan, grind it to flour, done. You can mix it with water and salt and a bit of butter to a doughy consistency and heat it in a pan. That's called pak. It's a side, just like rice or mashed potatoes. Or you add more water and turn it into a type of porridge (skip the pan for this one), that's called tsampa.

Through the roasting process, it's basically cooked so no need to cook the tsampa again, but certainly doesn't hurt either.

It's a superb breakfast!

 

[Closet Fermenter]

Another way of utilising barley is turning it into the staple Himalayan food tsampa. Roast it till it smells nutty, without oil, in a pan, grind it to flower, done. You can mix it with water and salt and a bit of butter to a doughy consistency and heat it in a pan. That's called pak. It's a side, just like rice or mashed potatoes. Or you add more water and turn it into a type of porridge (skip the pan for this one), that's called tsampa.

Through the roasting process, it's basically cooked so no need to cook the tsampa again, but certainly doesn't hurt either.

It's a superb breakfast!

I will definitely try this! Thanks!

 

[Miraculix]

I will definitely try this! Thanks!

For the upper Nepalis and the Tibetans it's the main thing they eat. It's very good. You can also throw pieces of harder pak into water to make it like noodles, best is directly into a soup or stew so that they can boil a bit in the broth. Don't discard the liquid the tsampa noodles (tuk pa) were cooked in, it's part of a soup or stew now. So best boil it directly in the soup.

 

[Oldskewl]

Those resemble my favorite cookie growing and to this day. Cowboy cookies! It is like an oatmeal choc chip cookie. Even the Betty Crocker bag cookie version is excellent.

 

[Closet Fermenter]

Those resemble my favorite cookie growing and to this day. Cowboy cookies! It is like an oatmeal choc chip cookie. Even the Betty Crocker bag cookie version is excellent.

These barley cookies were absolutely indistinguishable from oatmeal cookies, and of course, delicious! Oatmeal cookies, with the chocolate chips, have always been my favorite, too.

 

[Kickass]

First to contribute cookies since the OP! Peanut butter with sea salt.

 

[Kickass]

Two in a row. I guess we know who has the fat house! Classic chocolate chip with sea salt.

 

[day_trippr]

x ∞

 

[Miraculix]

I never understood this sea salt on sweets thing. To me this tastes absolutely wrong. Even Mr stomach says that it's harder for him to digest this sweet stuff when salt is added like this.

 

[Kickass]

It can easily be overdone but when ratio is right, it’s like a subtle dry hop on a pale ale. It helps the flavor pop out.

 

[Miraculix]

It can easily be overdone but when ratio is right, it’s like a subtle dry hop on a pale ale. It helps the flavor pop out.

The correct ratio according to my stomach is about a quarter teaspoon or less into 1 kg of dough....

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Chocolate chip macadamia.

 

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[OakIslandBrewery]

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Chocolate chip macadamia.

OMFG, those look sooo good!!

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

OMFG, those look sooo good!!

There were if I do say so myself. The chips were high quality chocolate from a cacao farm on Maui. Macadamia nuts seemed like the most appropriate nut to use for these. The chips were free with an order, otherwise ridiculously expensive, but extra tasty.

 

[Miraculix]

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Chocolate chip macadamia.

I'd CERTAINLY eat that, good sir!

 

[Broothru]

Heath Bar chips in place of chocolate chips in CC Cookies. Absolutely the best cookie in the world . But now you’ve got me thinking they’d be even better with a sprinkling of Sea Salt:

Sea Salt Caramel Heath Bar Cookies!!!

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

I'd CERTAINLY eat that, good sir!

I'd CERTAINLY eat that, good sir!

I’m glad my cookies look appealing, and you could say I’m an “ale wife” born into using the pronouns of her/she. BTW, thank you, I’ve learned much from your posts here on HBT.

 

[Miraculix]

I’m glad my cookies look appealing, and you could say I’m an “ale wife” born into using the pronouns of her/she. BTW, thank you, I’ve learned much from your posts here on HBT.

Glad i could be of help!