Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies
This recipe was given to me by Eleanor Murphy, Andy Murphy’s mother, when Scott was in Cub Scouts. I was their den mother.
- Jeanne "Grammy"
INGREDIENTS
- 1 cup sugar
- ½ cup butter or shortening
- 1 egg
- ½ tsp. salt
- ¼ cup milk
- ¾ tsp. vanilla
- 1 cup flour
- ⅓ cup cocoa
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- 1½ cups rolled oats
INSTRUCTIONS
Cream together sugar and butter. Add egg, salt, milk and vanilla. Then combine and add flour, cocoa, baking powder and oats.
Drop on greased pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes.
VARIATION:
Very good made with half of the butter (double recipe).
Add:
½ cup applesauce
2 cup chocolate morsels
1 extra cup rolled oats