Rough and Ready Cookies
Contributed by Lillian Simms . This recipe was handed down to her, by her mother Mary Miller, who got it from her mother, Agnes Svenski Knight.
Ingredients
- ¾ cup butter
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1½ cups flour
- 1½ cups rolled oats
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ¼ tsp salt
- 1 cup raisins and/or chocolate chips/shredded coconut/large scoop of peanut butter
Directions
- Heat oven to 400°
- Beat shortening until soft.
- Add sugar, and eggs and beat. ginger, and cloves. Beat until combined.
- Mix soda,salt, cinnamon, oats and flour and add it to the butter mixture.
- Add the raisins, chocolate chips, coconut and peanut butter as desired.
- Drop by spoonful onto a greased cookie sheet.
- Bake 6 to 8 minutes or until nicely browned.