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Stir-n-Drop Oatmeal Cookies
Desserts
Contributed by: Betty Crocker’s Cook Book for Boys and Girls, Gold
Ingredients:
1 cup sifted flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1?2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. ginger
1 cup packed brown sugar
1 cup rolled oats
1/4 cup cooking (salad) oil
2 TBS milk
1 egg
3/4 cup Spanish peanuts
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Combine flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, ginger, brown sugar and rolled oats in a bowl. Then thoroughly mix in oil, milk and egg. Then mix in Spanish peanuts.
Drop rounded teaspoonfuls of the dough on a lightly greased baking sheet 2 inches apart. Bake about 10 minutes, just until soft.
from Betty Crocker’s Cook Book for Boys and Girls, Golden Press, 1957, shared by Monica Stevens
(This recipe was contributed as part of a "Cook of the Week" feature.)