Recipe - Crunchy Oatmeal Cookies

3 cup Uncooked Quick Oats
1 cup Allpurpose flour
1 teaspoon Baking soda
One half teaspoon Salt (optional)
1 cup Packed brown sugar
One half cup White granulated sugar
Three fourths cup Shortening
1 Egg
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
One fourth cup Molasses

raisins, nuts, chocolate chips, birdseed, etc.

Preheat oven to 350 F

Mix dry ingredients. Cream together sugars, shortening, vanilla, molasses.
Mix in dry ingredients until mixed. Add "extras" raisins, nuts, chips,
etc. (I like pecans and chocolate chips). Roll tablespoons of the batter
into little balls (the molasses will make a mess out of your hands I
have to wash them a few times) about 3/4" or 1" in diameter; place on a
greased cookie sheet. Press them down with your fingers to flatten them,
and put them in the oven for 1113 minutes. If you bake them at a bit lower
than 350 you can do it longer and they get more crispy. Remove from oven
and let sit for a minute or two so they don't fall apart when you cool them
on a wire rack.

Enjoy!

Gary L Hewitt
glhewitt@phoenix.princeton.edu

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