Maypo Cookies

Submitted by Janice10

"This recipe was in my mother-in-law's box of handwritten recipes. I suspect she found it in a magazine ad or got it from a friend. The date could be anywhere from the 1950s to the 1970s. Maypo is a maple-flavored hot cereal popular in the 1960s and 1970s. It's become more difficult to find but worth it for the cookies, if not the cooked cereal. "

 

• Ready In: 32mins
• Ingredients: 11
• Yields: 24 cookies

ingredients

• 236.59 ml shortening
• 2 eggs
• 177.44 ml brown sugar
• 177.44 ml white sugar
• 354.88 ml flour
• 4.92 ml salt
• 4.92 ml baking soda (dissolved in 1T hot water)
• 236.59 ml maypo
• 4.92 ml vanilla
• 236.59 ml nuts
• 1 bag butterscotch chips or 1 bag chocolate chips

directions

1. Cream 1 cup shortening.
2. Beat in: eggs, brown sugar, and white sugar.
3. Add flour, salt, soda dissolved in 1 T hot water.
4. Stir in: Maypo, vanilla, nuts, butterscotch and/or chocolate chips.
5. Bake at 350 for 12 minutes on an ungreased cookie sheet.