Vintage Recipes - Mother's Oats - Chocolate Chip Cookies

 

Mother's Oats - Chocolate Chip Cookies

¾ cup butter or other shortening

½ cup brown sugar, firmly packed

½ cup granulated sugar

2 eggs

1 cup and 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

¼ teaspoon salt

⅓ cup milk

1 teaspoon vanilla

½ cup chopped nut meats (optional)

3 cups Mother’s or Quaker Oats (quick or regular, uncooked)

1 seven-ounce bar of semi-sweet chocolate, cut in pieces (or morsels)

Cream shortening and sugar thoroughly. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Sift flour once before measuring. Add baking powder and salt and sift together. Add to creamed mixture, alternately with the milk. Stir in vanilla. Add nuts, then Mother’s or Quaker Oats, and lastly, semi-sweet chocolate, cut in pea-size pieces. Drop from teaspoon on greased cookie sheet. Bake in hot oven (375 degrees F) 12 minutes. (Makes 5 dozen.)