Recipe: Oatmeal Cookies

This is from a small recipe booklet I found when we were kids, probably from a magazine or something that found its way to our house. It was called "Create-a-Cookie" because it can be many different flavors by changing a few ingredients.

Again, this is by far the best oatmeal recipe I've come across, and has filled hundreds of bellies along the way, if not more.

Oatmeal Cookies

1 cup butter, softened
1 1/4 cup brown sugar, packed
2 eggs
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 1/4 cup flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cinnamon
3 cups whole oats

Beat together butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Blend in eggs and vanilla. Add in flour, soda, salt and cinnamon by sifting in, and mix well. Stir in oats. Add in any other options you want at this point.

Drop by teaspoonsful onto greased cookie sheets.

Bake at 350 degrees F. for about 10 minutes.
Yields about 5 dozen cookies.

Some suggested extras:
chocolate chips
raisins
coconut
different flavored chips: mint, butterscotch, vanilla, etc.
anise seeds

you can also add in cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg or cloves, if you like those