The recipe for Hägar's Half Pounder cookies is an ancient family recipe handed down from generation to generation... starting with me (grin).

Seriously, I was married for 5 years, and my wife made small, thick cookies by using self-rising flour. They really didn't taste much like anything. But I thought there must be a way to bake a thick cookie yet have them taste much like a regular toll house cookie. When I quit playing in the Wisconsin River Bluegrass Boys bluegrass band at the end of the 1988 season, I figured that was my opportunity to "play" a different way. So I started "playing" with the recipe.

I decided, at the same time, to do something different. As I was "playing", I'd try them out on some of my bluegrass friends until I got them to where I was happy with the results. As I moved from place to place, each oven gave me a new challenge. And some of the brands of ingredients also became unavailable, which also posed new challenges. As I settle in my "new" home in Two Rivers, WI, I think we're back on track again.

So exactly what is the recipe? If I told you, I'd have to kill you. (grin) Really, I don't tell anyone anything to protect the mystique. But the recipe has been written down and "lives" in a fire-proof lock box in my house.

~ Hägar ~