Recipe - Giant Oatmeal Cookies

1 cup Firmly packed brown sugar
Three fourths cup Margarine or butter,
softened
2 Eggs
1 teaspoon Vanilla
1 One fourth cup Allpurpose flour
One half teaspoon Baking soda
One half teaspoon Salt (opt)
2 One half cup QUAKER Oats (quick or old
fashioned, uncooked)
1 pack Semisweet chocolate
pieces (6 oz)
One half cup Chopped nuts

Heat oven to 350'F. Lightly grease 2 large cookie sheets. Beat sugar and
margarine until fluffy. Blend in eggs and vanilla. Add combined flour,
baking soda, salt and oats; mix well. Stir in chocolate pieces and nuts.
Divide dough in half. Press each half into circle about 3/4" thick on
prepared cookie sheets. Bake 1720 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool
5 minutes on cookie sheets; remove to wire racks. Cool completely. Cut
into wedges to serve.

Makes 2 giant cookies.

VARIATION: Drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls onto ungreased cookie
sheets. Bake 1012 minutes. Makes about 3 dozen cookies.

From Favorite All Time Recipes Homemade Holiday Cookies, Publication
International, Ltd., ISBN 078530147X.

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