Recipe - Great Pumpkin Cookies

2 cup Flour
1 cup Oats, uncooked
1 teaspoon Bak. soda
1 teaspoon Cinnamon
One half teaspoon Salt
1 cup Butter or marg., soft
1 cup Firmly packed brown sug.
1 cup Granulated sugar
1 Egg, slightly beaten
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
1 cup Pumpkin
1 cup Semisweet morsels
Assorted icing or peanut
butter
Assorted candies, raisins,
or nuts

Source: Libby

Preheat oven, 350. Combine flour, oats, baking soda, cinnamon and salt.
Cream butter; gradually add sugars, beating until light and fluffy. Add egg
and vanilla; mix well. Alternate additions of dry ingredients and pumpin,
mixing well after each addition. Stir in morsels. For each cookie, drop 1/4
c. dough onto lightly greased cookie sheet; spread into pumpin shape (if
desired), using a thin metal spatula. Add a bit more dough to form stem.
Bake 20 to 25 mins. till cookies are firm and lightly browned. Remove from
cookie sheets; cool on racs. Decorate, using icing or peanut butter to
affix assorted candies, raisins, or nuts. Yield: 19 to 20 cookies.
Variation: 1 c. raisins instead of morsels. Posted to TNT Prodigy's
Recipe Exchange Newsletter by donarose@juno.com on Jul 8, 1997