Famous Chewy Oatmeal Cookies

Famous Chewy Oatmeal Cookies

1 cup shortening

1/2 cup butter or margarine

2 cups brown sugar

1 cup white sugar

2 eggs

1/2 c water (or milk)

2 teaspoons vanilla

6 cups oatmeal

2 cups flour

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon cinnamon, optional

Cream shortening, sugars, egg, water, and vanilla.

Add dry ingredients and mix well.

Add assorted baking chips (milk chocolate and butterscotch shown above) and/or raisins and/or chopped nuts.

Bake at 350° for 10-12 minutes.

I was surprised that this recipe wasn't on the blog yet, maybe because we'd rather have regular chocolate chip cookies than oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. However, I had some butterscotch chips that need to be used up, and I remembered we liked the oatmeal cookie in the Cub Scout book, so here you go.

This was basically the recipe on the back of the raisin package, so I'm not going to make a new post for these cookies. It called for all butter, used milk instead of water, added cinnamon, and suggested 1 cup of raisins for half the recipe. While we prefer chocolate chips in our cookies, if we have to have raisins, this is a good choice.