This is different than the borscht my grandmother from czechoslovakia used to make but just as delicious. I made it without the sausage and added some beef broth in place of the water. It was just delicious.

Reviewed On: Aug. 21, 2009

the basics of this recipe delivered as promised for a chewy oatmeal cookie and with the changes recommended to add extra flower and baking soda these cookies were not flat at all. Instead of chocolate chips, though, I used chopped dates, dried apricots, white chocolate chips and pecans, as my original search for a "chewy" otameal cookie was always with the intent of using these other add-in ingredients. This is a good recipe to alter to add what ever you fancy.

Reviewed On: Jan. 12, 2008

these tasted very good, but as others have mentioned, baked very flat, unattractively so. I didn't include them with my annual cookie gifts, beacause they were so ugly. BUT, my family and I did gobble them down, ugly or not.

Reviewed On: Dec. 23, 2007