A childhood friend of my mom's used to make these cookies when her daughter and I were just little. I can remember coming in from the cold Canadian winter following a session of making snow angels and hiding in snow forts to finds a table of peanut butter and grape jelly sandwiches (Welch's of course) and a plate of these delicious chewy cookies. It was at that point that I became a cookie snob ... I only like homemade, chewy cookies and I am totally ok with admitting it! The added bonus of these cookies you ask???? There isn't any egg so the batter is perfectly okay to snack on, I made these last week for the boys and rediscovered my love of Karen's Chewy Oatmeal Cookies along the way.
Ingredients
1 1/2 cups of brown sugar
1 cup of butter
1 1/2 cups of all purpose flour
2 cups of quick cooking oats
1/2 tsp of salt (none if using salted butter)
1 tsp of Vanilla
1 tsp of Baking Soda
1/4 cup of boiling water
Mix sugar and butter with hot boiling water and beat.
Add in remainder of the ingredients and mix by hand.
Spoon onto baking sheet (make them a good size, the bigger they are ... the chewier the cookie!) and press with a fork dipped in milk.
Bake at 350 for 8-10 minutes or until edges are starting to dry and are light brown.
Cool ... or eat warm, that's when they are the best :-)
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