Oatmeal Drop Cookies

Name: Oatmeal Drop Cookies
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 12 min
Total time: 32 min
Yield: About 6 dozen cookies
Ingredients: ½ cup shortening; 1¾ cups sugar; 2 eggs; ½ cup molasses; 1¾ cups flour; 1 tsp baking soda; 1 tsp salt; 1 tsp cinnamon; 2 cups rolled oats; ½ cup chopped nuts; 1 cup raisins

Marye Cookies & Bars

Serves About 6 dozen cookies Prep 20 min Cook 8–12 min at 400°

Marye's handwriting — page 16 of her spiral recipe notebook.

From Marye's spiral recipe notebook — a notebook of recipes Marye kept with grape-cluster illustrations on each page. This is page 16 of that notebook.

Ingredients

½ cup shortening
1¾ cups sugar
2 eggs
½ cup molasses
1¾ cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
2 cups rolled oats
½ cup chopped nuts
1 cup raisins

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 400°F.
2. Mix together the shortening, sugar, eggs, and molasses.
3. Blend in the dry ingredients (flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon).
4. Add the rolled oats, nuts, and raisins.
5. Drop dough by rounded teaspoonfuls about 2 inches apart on a cookie sheet.
6. Bake for 8 to 12 minutes.