Still Trying to Figure This Out

Dam and I have an oven in our apartment. Apparently ovens in China are a luxury. Not many people have them. Then again mostly westerners use them. Well I decided to try my hand at making oatmeal cookies. It is so weird to mix batter with a fork when you are used to using a KitchenAid mixer. Luckily, a few days earlier, was able to find baking powder, baking soda, and Crisco. All of the local stores do not sell these products. To obtain them you have to go to the "City Shop", which is full of food imported from the United States, Great Britain and Australia. After tinkering with the oven for over half an hour I was finally able to get it to the right temperature. I'm not sure what I did wrong, but the cookies did not look like oatmeal cookies from home. They didn't taste bad, just something was off that neither Dam nor I could figure out. In the end we put peanut butter on them to make the cookies more appealing.