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From: healy@BBN.COM (Kathleen M. Healy)
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Subject: OVO-LACTO: Best Oatmeal Cookies
Summary: original subject was Best Oatmeal Cookies
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Message-ID: <1990Dec16.045031.2798@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
Date: 13 Dec 90 15:23:34 GMT
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Hi all,

Here is the Oatmeal Cookie recipe, slightly modified, from the Quaker
Oats Box.  These are absolutely the best oatmeal cookies I have ever
made.  Everyone loves them!

	-Kathy

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		     BEST OATMEAL COOKIES

  1-1/4 cups margarine                  1 teaspoon baking soda
  3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar     1 teaspoon salt
  1/2 cup granulated sugar              2 teaspoons cinnamon
  1 egg                                 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
  1 teaspoon vanilla                    3 cups uncooked oats (quick or 
  1-1/2 cups all purpose flour		    old-fashioned)
  1 cup raisins (variations include 1 cup cranberries or 1 cup choc chips)

  Heat oven to 375F.  Beat together margarine and sugars until light
  and fluffy.  Beat in egg and vanilla.  Combine flour, baking soda,
  salt and spices; add to margarine mixture, mixing well.  Stir in
  oats.  Stir in raisins.  Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls onto
  ungreased cookie sheet.  Bake 8 to 9 minutes for a chewy cookie, 10
  to 11 minutes for a crisp cookie.  Cool 1 minute on cookie sheet;
  remove to wire cooling rack.  Store in tightly covered container.

  Makes 4-1/2 dozen.
   
Kathy Healy healy@bbn.com