quaker oats oatmeal cookies
This recipe is the original 1960s-1970s one taken directly off a Quaker Oats box cut-out. I thought I'd post it since it's my favorite oatmeal cookie recipe. (NOTE: There is more than one original Quaker Oats Oatmeal Cookies recipe since it changed over the years.) It took a while for me to figure out why I liked these cookies so much, and then I realized that they have NO CINNAMON in them! Not that you couldn't add some, but that was the difference. Homemade oatmeal cookies... a pleasure from my childhood to yours. Got milk? =^..^=
prep time
15 Min
cook time
5 Min
method
Bake
yield
Makes 42 cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 3 cups dry oatmeal
- 3/4 cup crisco
- 1 cup brown sugar, packed
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1 - large egg
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- OPTIONS, ADJUST AMOUNTS TO TASTE OR USE ANY COMBINATION
- 1/2 cup raisins, more or less
- 1/2 cup craisins (cranberry raisins)
- 1/2 cup chocolate or butterscotch chips
- 1/2 cup flaked coconut
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
How To Make quaker oats oatmeal cookies
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Step 1Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease or spray cookie sheets.
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Step 2Put the dry ingredients (flour, salt, baking soda, and oatmeal) in a medium bowl. Mix together well. -
Step 3NOTE: I mix the dry ingredients in this recipe by hand, using the large meat fork from my cutlery set. After years of it taking up space in my drawer, it gets used several times a week now. This photo shows the meat fork next to a regular dinner fork. If you've got one, use it!
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Step 4Put the rest of the ingredients (Crisco, brown sugar, white sugar, egg, water, and vanilla) in a larger bowl. Mix together well with the meat fork or in a stand mixer. (My hand mixer gets bogged down in the next step, so I don’t use it.)
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Step 5Add the dry ingredients to the sugar mixture and mix until well-combined.
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Step 6Add any optional ingredients you like. In my family, some like plain oatmeal cookies and others like raisins, so I make the plain ones first, then stir in a few raisins to finish out the baking. (I've also been known to separate the cookie dough into separate bowls & add a little bit of different extras to each bowl.) Make them any way you like. Cookies should be fun! =^..^=
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Step 7Drop with a teaspoon (or a small scoop) on the prepared cookie sheets. Bake at 350 degrees F for 7-10 minutes, depending on how soft or crunchy you like your oatmeal cookies.
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Step 8Cool on cooling racks. Or eat them warm. You know you want to! Pass the milk, please. =^..^=
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