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      Title: Oatmeal "Rocks"
 Categories: Cookies
      Yield: 48 servings
 
      1 c  Shortening
      1 c  Sugar
      2    Eggs; beaten
      2 c  Flour
      2 c  Oatmeal; uncooked
      1 ts Baking powder
    1/2 ts Soda
      1 ts Cinnamon
    1/4 ts Salt
      1 c  Dates; or raisins
      1 c  Nuts; chopped
    1/4 c  Milk
 
  Recipe by: dsjn00a-

     Cream shortening and sugar.  Add eggs.  Mix the dry ingredients,
  sprinkle over the raisins and nuts and combine the mixtures, adding only
  enough milk to make a stiff dough. Drop on greased cookie sheet, 1 inch
  apart.  Bake 10-12 minutes in moderate oven, 350°.
 
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