Best Oatmeal Cookies Recipe
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Ingredients: 3 cups quick oats
1-1/3 cup flour (mix half white flour and half whole wheat, if you like)
1 tsp salt
2 tsp baking powder
2 Tbsp flaxseeds or chopped nuts
1 cup soft margarine (I NEVER use margarine. For this recipe I melted about 1/2 cup butter and mixed it with 1/2 cup olive oil to make one cup. Be sure to whip the mixture before using.)
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 large egg
1 cup very hot water into which is mixed 1 cup of dried fruits, including cranberries, raisins, apple slices, etc. chopped into raisin-sized pieces
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Directions:Here's my recipe for the oatmeal cookies, which I modified from the one on the bag I got from Grain Millers, Inc., of Eugene.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine dry ingredients in a bowl and set aside. Cream butter/oil or margarine, sugars and vanilla until mixture is light and fluffy. Beat in egg until well combined. Drain the fruit, water mixture (the resulting water is sweet and is very drinkable) and pour fruit onto paper towels and pat more or less dry. Don't worry if the fruit is kind of hot. Add dry ingredients and fruits to the butter mixture and combine well. Drop large teaspoon sized balls onto cookie sheets about 2 inches apart. Bake about 15-16 minutes. Remove cookies from sheets while still warm, but not hot.
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Notes: This recipe comes, verbatim, from our long-time neighbor, Jo McIntyre, who lived across the street from us in the yellow house on Alder Street with her husband, Bob DeForest. She was part of a McMinnville baking club for many years, with a wit and forthrightness that endeared her to us. Jo also liked to call our son, Joseph, her namesake. She and her husband are missed. She brought these cookies over to us once and I begged her for the recipe. I've always known that, although oatmeal cookies seldom live up to their potential, they can be great. This recipe proves it.
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