Oatmeal Cookies - Grandma's Recipe

1 cup softened margarine or butter

3/4 cup brown sugar (packed tightly)

3/4 cup white sugar

2 eggs

1 tsp salt

1 tsp vanilla

1/2 tsp water

2 cups of flour 

1 cup chocolate chips (you can put in more if you want) (I like the Ghiradelli large dark chocolate chips - 65% Cocoa).

2 cups of oats

1 cup chopped nuts (optional)

Cream the butter and the sugar.  Add the eggs and mix well. Blend in the salt, vanilla, and water and mix well. Add flour slowly and blend well. Add the chocolate chips and then add the oats.  I make the dough fairly stiff by adding extra flour so that the cookies will be soft; but be careful that you don't add to much because the cookies won't taste right. You can start baking one batch and see how they turn out. If they spread out to thin, you can add a little more flour.  You can vary the recipe by adding raisins and cinammon, M & M's, or anything else you wanted to try.

Bake at 350 degree Fahrenheit for about 9-12 minutes (depending on your oven). You want the cookies to just have a little touch of brown, but not much.  If they are too brown, they are still good, but they are more crunchy.  Drop dough on cookie sheet that has been prepared with PAM spray.

Molasses Sugar Cookies

These cookies are yummy.  They taste like Ginger Snaps.

3/4 cup margerine or butter

1 cup sugar

1/4 cup molasses

1 egg

2 tsp baking soda

1/2 salt

1/2 tsp cloves

1/2 tsp ginger

1 tsp cinnamon

2 cups flour

Melt margerine in large pan over low heat and cool.  Add sugar, egg, and molasses.  Beat well.  Add salt, Baking Soda, cloves, ginger, and cinnamon and mix well.  Mix in flour.  Chill.  Form 1 inch balls and roll in granuatled sugar.  Place on a greased cookie sheet 2 inches apart.  Bake at 375 degrees Farenheit for 8-10 minutes.  Don't cook to long as they will be crunchy.  I like them best when they are soft and chewy.