---------- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.02
 
      Title: CRUNCHY OATMEAL COOKIES
 Categories: Biscuits, Cookies
      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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