Jean's Famous Oatmeal Cookies 1 & 2

Recipe 1 Soft Cakey Oatmeal Cookies:

BOWL 1
3 eggs
1 stick butter/margarine/shortening
1 cup sugar

BOWL 2
1 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda, baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp all spice


Waiting backstage: 2 cups Oatmeal, 1/2 cup milk and Raisins

STEP 1
Mix ingredients in Bowl 1

Then mix ingredients in Bowl 2 and gradually add, alternating with milk



After this is mixed, add oatmeal

Then add raisins (or other ingredients of choice) and drop onto cookie sheet.
Then bakc 8-10 minutes at 350º or 10-12 at 325º

and you get:
Aaron gives these cookies the thumbs up, and I think I know many people who would like them.

After making these cookies, I asked Jean and google what I could do to make these cookies less soft, and more chewy and thin. The consensus brought me to the altered version below. KEY: less soda and baking powder, substitute white sugar for brown, press down cookies after dropping on sheet and bake less time.


Recipe 2: :
BOWL 1

Melted Butter 1 stick
3/4 cups Brown sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla

BOWL 2
3/4 cup flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1 1/2 cup oatmeal

STEPS
Melt Butter and mix in first bowl with brown sugar and eggs (like above, but you get a darker looking mixture.


Mix Flour, Baking soda, salt, cinnamon in another bowl

Then add to wet mixture

Add oatmeal, then raisins

and put on cookie sheet, flattened down after dropping
I baked mine at 300º for 10 minutes. and they were almost exactly what I was looking for, and yummy none the less
Somewhere, sometime I had an oatmeal cookie that changed my life. I can't recreate it, and for that reason, I'm quitting the oatmeal cookie search/fiasco, I'm going to leave the oatmeal cookies to other people.

next week: Monkey Bread