Baking with Oatmeal...Famous Oatmeal Cookies



This is my husband’s favorite cookie.  When we were first married, I tried recipes from the “big” classic cookbooks…nada.  Then I tried the obvious one on the oatmeal box…these are the ones.  This isn’t the one on the box today; but it’s still the way I make them.  It makes a big recipe, but I freeze the dough to bake later.  Be sure you use the combination of shortening and butter; it gives them the best qualities of both.                     
               Famous Oatmeal Cookies
  1           Cup  Shortening -- 7 ounces
     ½       Cup  Butter -- 1 stick
  1           Cup  Sugar -- 7 ounces
  2           Cups  Brown Sugar -- 1 pound
  2           Large  Eggs
     ½       Cup  Water
  2          Teaspoons  Vanilla Extract
  2           Cups  Flour, All-purpose -- 10 ounces
  1           Teaspoon  Baking Soda
     ½       Teaspoon  Salt
  6          Cups  Oats -- 18 ounces
  1 -2      Cups  Chocolate Chips -- or raisins
·        Cream together shortening, butter, sugar, brown sugar, eggs, water and vanilla extract until light.
·        Mix together the flour, soda and salt.  Beat into creamed mixture.
·        Stir oats in by hand or with a large mixer.
·        Stir in chocolate chips or raisins.
·        Drop on ungreased cookie sheet.  Bake at 350° for 12-15 minutes.  Let them rest on the sheet a minute or two before cooling on a rack.
This recipe is a good one to freeze.  I drop the dough balls close together on waxed paper on a half sheet pan and freeze them till they are solid.  Then I roll up the wax paper, cookies and all, and put it in a freezer bag.  Mark the bag with baking time and temp.  I bake them right from the freezer, usually for 15 minutes.
Yield:  "5 Dozen"

4 comments:

  1. I'll try this as soon as my sons can come over for Sunday dinner again... Do you use old fashioned or quick oats, I'm guessing old fashioned?

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    1. I usually use quick oats because I keep them for breakfast...either one works.

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  2. I bet they are good. I haven't used shortening in a very, very long time.

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    1. You can substitute non-hydrogenated lard for the shortening...that's what I do now.

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