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Selma'S Best Oatmeal Cookies

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A home-kitchen version of selma's best oatmeal cookies, written step by step so it's easy to follow that's worth the oven time.

Selma'S Best Oatmeal Cookies
Total
60 min
Level
Hard

Ingredients

  • 1 c. shortening
  • 1 c. white sugar
  • 1/2 c. brown sugar
  • 1 beaten egg
  • 1 1/2 c. flour
  • 1 tsp. soda
  • 1 tsp. cinnamon
  • 1 1/2 c. quick rolled oats
  • 3/4 c. fine chopped walnuts or pecans
  • 1 tsp. vanilla

Method

  1. Mix together shortening and sugars; add egg.

  2. Now sift together flour, soda and cinnamon.

  3. Add to first mixture.

  4. Now add oats, walnuts or pecans and vanilla.

  5. Chill for 1 hour.

  6. Put walnut-sized pieces on a greased cookie sheet.

  7. Butter the bottom of a small glass.

  8. Dip it in granulated sugar and flatten out the little pieces.

  9. Just keep doing this; you don't need to rebutter the glass bottom each time, just resugar each time.

  10. Bake at 350° for ten minutes.

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