Helen's Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies

"There are lots of chocolate chip oatmeal cookie recipes out there, but this is the one I use, and none of the others had quite the same proportions of ingredients. I got this from my mom (Helen). They're equally good with raisins instead of chips, and I love walnut pieces added (but my son doesn't, so I usually skip those). Cooking time is for 5 successive cookie sheet's worth of baking/resting/removal."
 
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Ready In:
1hr
Ingredients:
11
Yields:
84 cookies
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ingredients

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directions

  • Preheat oven to 350° Cream together margarine and both sugars.
  • Blend in eggs and vanilla.
  • Add flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt; blend thoroughly.
  • Stir in oats and chocolate chips.
  • (I use my mixer for this part too!) Drop by teaspoonfuls on ungreased cookie sheet.
  • Bake 7 minutes.
  • Leave cookies on sheet to"rest" 2 minutes, then remove to cooling area.
  • (I remove them to brown paper to absorb a little of the grease-- I just use the inside of a grocery bag, cut and flattened out.) (Cookie sheet should be cool when putting the dough on. Since I only have one sheet, I rinse the sheet w/ cold water and dry each time I take some cookies off.).

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  1. Very good. I however did add in some cinnamon and used butter instead of the margarine and it turned out fine! Also I prefer more vanilla so I added in another teaspoon and a little almond extract it was great. Thanks for your recipe just the right balance of brown and white sugar!
     
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  1. Very good. I however did add in some cinnamon and used butter instead of the margarine and it turned out fine! Also I prefer more vanilla so I added in another teaspoon and a little almond extract it was great. Thanks for your recipe just the right balance of brown and white sugar!
     

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