Recipe - Quakers: Famous Oatmeal Cookies

Three fourths cup Firm packed brown sugar
One half cup Granulated sugar
4 tablespoon Margarine
Three fourths cup Apple butter*
or apple sauce
2 Egg whites or 1 egg
2 tablespoon Skim milk
2 teaspoon Vanilla
1 One half cup Allpurpose flour
1 teaspoon Baking soda

l teaspoon ground cinnamon
l/2 teaspoon salt (optional)
One fourth teaspoon ground nutmeg (optional)
3 cup QUAKER Oats uncooked
: (quick or old fashioned)
l cup raisins/ minced dried mixed fruit

Heat oven to 350 F. Lightly spray cookie sheet with nostick cooking
spray. Beat together sugars and margarine until well blended. Add apple
butter, egg whites, milk and vanilla; beat well. Add combined flour, baking
soda, cinnamon, salt and nutmeg; mix well. Stir in oats and raisins; mix
well. (Dough will be moist.) Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls onto prepared
cookie sheet. Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until edges are light golden brown.
Cool 1 minute on cookie sheet; remove to wire rack. Cool completely. Store
in tightly covered container.

* Apple butter is usually available in your supermarket's jam & jelly
section.

Convenient Bar Cookies: Spread dough onto bottom of ungreased 9x13inch
baking pan. Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until edges are light golden brown.
Cool completely; cut into bars. Store tightly covered. 32 BARS

Nutrition Information: l cookie Calories 9O, Calories From Fat l5, Total
Fat 2g, Saturated Fat 0g, Cholesterol 0mg, Sodium 45mg, Total Carbohydrates
19g, Dietary Fiber 1g, Protein 2g

Note: For a nofatadded cookie, omit margarine and increase apple butter
to l cup; and continue as recipe directs.

Nutrition Information: 1 cookie (made without margarine or butter)
Calories 9O, Calories from Fat 5, Total Fat 0g, Cholesterol 0mg, Sodium
30mg, Total Carbohydrates 19g, Dietary Fiber 1g, Protein 2g

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