Recipe - Peanutty Oatmeal Cookies

2 cup Allpurpose flour
One half teaspoon Baking soda
One half teaspoon Salt
1 cup Sugar
1 cup Firmly packed brown sugar
1/3 cup Butter or margarine;
softened
One half cup Shortening
2 Eggs
One fourth cup Milk
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
3 cup Quickcooking oats; uncooked
One half cup Shredded coconut
One half cup Finely chopped salted
peanuts

Combine flour, soda, and salt; stir well, and set aside. Combine sugar,
butter, and shortening; cream well. Beat in eggs, milk and vanilla. Add the
flour mixture, mixing well. Stir in oats, shredded coconut, and the
peanuts. Drop dough by heaping teaspoonfuls onto lightly greased cookie
sheets. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 to 13 minutes or until lightly browned.
Yield: about 7 dozen.

NOTES : Submitted by Mrs. Donald C. Vanhoy, Salisbury, North Carolina

Recipe by: Southern Living, 1980 Annual Recipes, May

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