Recipe - Easy Oatmeal Cookies

1 One fourth cup Allpurpose flour
1 teaspoon Baking soda
One half teaspoon Salt
One half teaspoon Ground cinnamon
1 cup Shortening
1 cup Firmly packed brown sugar
1 cup Sugar
2 Eggs
One half teaspoon Vanilla extract
3 cup Quickcooking or regular
oats; uncooked
One half cup Chopped pecans

Combine flour, soda, salt, and cinnamon; set aside. Cream shortening and
sugar; beat in eggs and vanilla. Add flour mixture, mixing well. Stir in
oats and pecans. Shape dough into 1inch balls, and place 1 inch apart on
lightly greased cookie sheets. Bake at 350 degrees for 1215 minutes or
until lightly browned. Yield: about 8 dozen.

NOTES : Submitted by Mrs. Earl E. Crimm, Gordo, Alabama

Recipe by: Southern Living, 1980 Annual Recipes, May

Posted to MCRecipe Digest by NGavlak NGavlak@aol.com on May 17, 1998