CRUNCHY OATMEAL COOKIES

      Title: CRUNCHY OATMEAL COOKIES
  Categories: Biscuits
       Yield: 1 Servings
  
       3 c  Uncooked Quick Oats
       1 c  All-purpose flour
       1 ts Baking soda
     1/2 ts Salt (optional)
       1 c  Packed brown sugar
     1/2 c  White granulated sugar
     3/4 c  Shortening
       1    Egg
       1 ts Vanilla extract
     1/4 c  Molasses
  
   raisins, nuts, chocolate chips, birdseed, etc.
   
   Preheat oven to 350 F
   
   Mix dry ingredients.  Cream together sugars, shortening, vanilla,
   molasses. Mix in dry ingredients until mixed. Add "extras" --
   raisins, nuts, chips, etc. (I like pecans and chocolate chips). Roll
   tablespoons of the batter into little balls (the molasses will make a
   mess out of your hands -- I have to wash them a few times) about 3/4"
   or 1" in diameter; place on a greased cookie sheet. Press them down
   with your fingers to flatten them, and put them in the oven for 11-13
   minutes. If you bake them at a bit lower than 350 you can do it
   longer and they get more crispy. Remove from oven and let sit for a
   minute or two so they don't fall apart when you cool them on a wire
   rack.
   
   Enjoy!
   
   Gary L Hewitt
                           glhewitt@phoenix.princeton.edu
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