About the Recipe
Grandma's recipe for the best oatmeal cookies. As always, I like to keep ingredients and instructions as simple, quick, and easy as possible. This recipe will make around 5 dozen cookies to share with family, friends, and neighbors. If you don't need that many cookies, just half the recipe.
Ingredients
1 cup shortening
3 cups quick rolled oats
1.5 cups brown sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 3/4 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional)
1/2 cup raisins (optional)
1/2 cup chocolate chips (optional)
Preparation
Preheat oven 400 degrees
Cream together shortening, brown sugar, and eggs until light and fluffy
Stir in buttermilk
Sift together all dry ingredients
Stir into creamed mixture
Stir in rolled oats, nuts, chocolate chips, raisins
Spooon out dough balls about 2-inches apart on greased cookie sheet
Bake approximately 8-minutes at 400 degrees