3/4 cup Crisco shortening
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
2 large eggs
2 tsp vanilla
1 cup all purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp salt
2 3/4 cup rolled oats
1 cup golden raisins
1 cup chopped walnuts or pecans
Heat Oven to 375 degrees. Lightly oil cookie sheets.
Beat shortening, sugar, and brown sugar with electric mixer until creamy.
Beat in eggs and vanilla. Combine flour, soda, cinnamon and salt in a bowl. Beat into the shortening
mixture until well blended. Stir in oats, raisins and nuts. Drop by teaspoonfulls onto cookie sheet space about 2 inches apart. Bake 10 to 12 min. Place on rack to cool completely.
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Pistachio Cookies: Same recipe as above with two changes.
In place of raisins I add 1 cup milk chocolate pieces. In place of walnuts or pecans, add 1 cup of chopped pistachios. These are Wade's favorite!
Chocolate Chip Cookies......taste good and easy to make!
3/4 cup crisco
1 1/4 cup light brown sugar firmly packed
2 tbsps milk
1 tbsp vanilla
1 egg
1 3/4 cup all purpose flour
1 tsp salt
3/4 tsp baking soda
1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts
Heat oven to 375 degrees. Do Not grease cookie sheet.
Beat shortening and brown sugar in large boal with electric mixer. Beat in milk, vanilla and egg. Stir in flour, salt and baking soda. Blend in chocolate chips and nuts. Drop by teaspoonful 2 inches apart. Bake 8-10 min. Remove from oven. Cool on baking sheet for 5 min and then transfer to rack to cool completely.
White Chocolate and Macadamia Nut Cookies
Use the same recipe as above. Substitute 1 cup white chocolate chips and 1 cup chopped macadamia nuts. I made these once and didn't chop the nuts and they fell apart. So best results with chopped nuts:)
I am posting some pictures of Momma's Loofa Gourds she is growing. They are really neat. They grow on the vine green and then they turn yellow and then dry out and turn brown. The vine has to be up off of the ground or they will rot. To get to the loofah you break the outside layer and shake out the seeds. Then trim the ends and cut into pieces small enough to bathe with. I didn't know that loofahs grew like that. I really thought they were a sponge from the ocean!
