Dill Oyster Crackers

I cannot recall the first time I had Dill Oyster Crackers.  I only know that it is a nice, simple recipe that is easily made and highly addictive.  Mom also would curse her coworker who gave her the recipe we would use.

I do remember Mom has a huge yellowish/gold Tupperware container that we'd dump the oyster crackers in before adding the dill mix.  We'd stir that goodness every half hour or so until all of the oil was soaked up by the crackers.

The crackers would never last for long, especially as we'd sample them each time they were being stirred - to ensure that they were tasting right, ya know!

Today, my girls helped with the tradition.  I'd been planning to make up some Christmas gifts in the weeks leading up to the Holiday, but I had a very insane last week at work as well as needing to finish up the knitted scarves we'd decided on for various teachers and friends, so the baking-type gifts didn't get made.  BUT - I have spare time this week, so we set to work making the Dill Oyster Crackers that will be late Christmas gifts!

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know there are a bajillion recipes out there for this snack.  But guess what - I want to ensure that I have the one I like best where I can find it easily!

Dill Oyster Crackers
2 bags oyster crackers
3/4 - 1 cup oil
1 T dry dill
2 tsp garlic powder
1/2 to 1 tsp sea salt (to taste)
1 tsp dry ranch dressing mix (can leave this out, I did for the first batch, and it's just as yummy as with it)

Preheat oven to 250F.  In small bowl, mix oil, dill, garlic powder, sea salt and ranch dressing.  Pour in roasting pan.  Pour both bags of oyster crackers into roasting pan.  Stir until all crackers are coated with oil mixture. 

Place roasting pan of crackers in preheated oven.  Stir every 20 minutes to ensure oil, seasoning mix coats crackers.  After hour is up, remove from oven and let cool.  Store in airtight container.

- if desired, crackers do not need baked in oven.  Instead, simply use large bowl, dump in crackers and pour oil mixture over crackers.  Stir cracker mixture every half hour until oil has soaked into crackers.