GRANDMA'S OATMEAL COOKIES

      Title: GRANDMA'S OATMEAL COOKIES
  Categories: Biscuits
       Yield: 120 Servings
  
   1 1/2 c  Shortening
       4 lg Eggs
       5 c  Flour
       3 c  Quick cooking oats
       2 c  Buttermilk
       1 c  Granulated sugar
       1 c  Firmly packed brown sugar
       5 ts Baking powder
       1 c  Chopped walnuts
       1 c  Raisins
       4 ts Cinnamon
     1/2 ts Cloves
     1/2 ts Allspice
       2 ts Vanilla
  
   optional: butterscotch chips, chocolate chips, pecans for walnuts
   
   Pour 1 cup boiling water over the raisins and add 1 t baking soda.
   Stir well and set aside.
   
   Bring the shortening to room temperature then cream well. Add the
   sugar one cup at a time and cream well after each addition. Add the
   eggs in the same manner. Sift together the cinnamon, cloves,
   allspice, flour and baking powder.  Add the vanilla to the creamed
   mixture. Drain the raisins and sprinkle one tablespoon of flour over
   them and shake to coat. Alternately add the flour mixture, the milk
   and the oatmeal. Mix well after each addition.  There will a lot of
   dough and it should be fairly thick. With a heavy wooden spoon stir
   in the walnuts and the raisins and the flavored chips--you can use
   any amount of the flavored chips you want.
   
   Grease the cookie sheet.  Drop the dough by teaspoonful on the cookie
   sheet.  I usually get about 20 per sheet--but then I have very, very
   old cookie sheets and they are larger than my new ones. Bake at 350
   for 10-12 minutes.  They will be golden on the bottom and dry on the
   top. Remove and place on wax paper until cool. Keep in an airtight
   container--Tupperware is great.
   
   Makes about 10 dozen.
   
   Variation - you can save the water from soaking the raisins and cut
   down on the milk by the appropriate amount. this adds a very good
   flavor to the cookies.
   
   Enjoy Diane M. Ferrell Colorado dmferrell@happy.uccs.edu
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