Oatmeal Cookies

Ingredients:


1 cup butter or margarine (left at room temperature for 1 hour)
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
  1/2 cup granulated (standard white table) sugar
    2 eggs
    1 teaspoon real vanilla extract
1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
    1 teaspoon baking soda
    1 teaspoon Cinnamon (optional)
     3 cups quick or old-fashioned  oats, uncooked
   12 ounces chocolate chips or rasins (optional)

Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees F. With a mixer, beat the butter or margarine, and mix in the brown surgar and granulated sugar. Beat in the eggs and vanilla.

Combine (sift together) flour, baking soda, and cinnamon; add to wet ingredients, mixing well with a spoon . Stir oats. (unless you have a heavy duty, high quality mixer, it will not be effective in mixing in the dry ingredients, and may be damaged).

Drop rounded tablespoons full of the mixture onto a greased cookie sheet. Bake 8 to 12 minutes. Within this range, lower time for a chewie cooking, longer for a crisp cooking. Higher in the range if the cookies are larger.

Remove from oven, cool one minute on cookie sheet, then move cookies to wire cooking rack.