Recipe - Oatmeal Bars

1 cup Shortening
1 cup Brown sugar
1 cup Sugar, granulated
4 Eggs, beaten well
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
1 One half cup White flour, sifted
1 teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Baking soda
2 cup Oats, quickcooking
One half cup Walnuts, chopped
(optional)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Cream shortening and sugars. Add eggs and
vanilla. Beat well. Sift flour, salt and soda and add to creamed sugars.
Add oatmeal and nuts and mix well. Spread evenly into a greased 13x9x2inch
baking pan. Bake at 350 degrees F. for 20 minutes. While still warm, cut
into squares and remove from pan.

NOTES:

* Chewy rolled oatmeal bar cookies If I had ever dreamed that my oldest
son would grow up to be the moderator of mod.recipes, I might have taught
him how to make these cookies when he was young. They were his favorite
cookies. Yield: Serves 6 children.

: Difficulty: easy.
: Time: 10 minutes preparation, 20 minutes baking.
: Precision: Measure the ingredients.

: Betty Reid
: Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, Conn. USA
: {decwrl!mejac,yale,princeton}!spock!breid

: Copyright (C) 1986 USENET Community Trust

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