Prairie fare: Before licking the spoon, consider facts about flour and oatmeal

“I thought that eggs were the problem in raw cookie dough!” someone exclaimed to me after a webinar.“ Now the flour can make us sick?”

“Yes, we have to be careful with flour,” I replied.

“Flour is a raw commodity, and some outbreaks have occurred due to Salmonella and E. coli bacteria in uncooked food containing flour,” I noted.

Eating raw cookie dough is not advised for safety reasons, with an excep…