Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Here is another recipe from my old roommate Jessica Bosen Clyde. These are are nice, soft, and chewy, not hard.

1. Beat well together
•  2 Cups Brown Sugar
•  2 Cups White Sugar 
• 2 Cups Butter 
• 4 Eggs
2. Mix with above and beat well
• 1 Teaspoon Salt
• 2 Teaspoons Baking Powder 
•  2 Teaspoons Baking Soda 
•  2 Teaspoons Vanilla 
3. Mix with above and beat well  
• 4 Cups Flour 
•  2 Cups All Purpose Flour 
•  2 Cups Whole Wheat 
•  5 Cups Quick Oats 
• 1 Package Chocolate Chips
4. Make into golf ball sized balls and place on ungreased cookie sheet 2 inches apart, flattened slightly. 
5. Bake at 350° F for ~6 minutes. Do not overbake.  

 
Makes ~100 Cookies 

Old Fashion Apple Crisp

5 Cup Apples, Peeled and Sliced (about 5-6 apples)
2/3-3/4 Cups Packed Brown Sugar
2 Tsp. Lemon Juice
1/3 Cup Butter (softened, not melted)
1/4 tsp. Salt
1 Cup Rolled Oats
1/2 Cup Flour
1 tsp. Cinnamon
1/2 tsp Nutmeg (optional)
1/2 tsp. Allspice (optional)

Apples:

1. Combine Apples, and lemon juice in bottom of greased 9/13 pan.
2.  Dust with cinnamon and 1/4 Cups brown sugar

Crisp:

1.  Combine flour, the rest of the brown sugar, spices, salt and rolled oats until well mixed. 
2. Add Butter and mix until crumbly
3. Sprinkle over apples 

Baking:

1. Bake at 350°F for 30 minutes or until apples are tender.
2. Serve with ice cream or whipped cream 

Variations:

• To make a berry crisp, use 4 cups mixed frozen berries. No lemon juice needed. Decrease cinnamon to 1/2 tsp.
• For Dutch Oven Cooking: Line dutch oven with aluminum foil. Prepare crisp in the same way. For apples, use one can of sprite instead of lemon juice so the apples don't dry out when cooking. Use 5-6 coals on bottom and 12-14 coals on top of 12" dutch oven. Bake for 1 hour or until apples are cooked. 

No Bake Cookies

• 2 Cups Sugar                                   
• 1/2 Cup butter                                  
• 1/2 Cup Milk                                    
• 1/4 Cup unsweetened cocoa 
• 1/2 Cup Peanut Butter
• 1/4 tsp. salt             
• 1 tsp. Vanilla
• 3 Cups Quick Oats

1. Mix sugar, cocoa, milk and butter together over medium heat until boiling. Boil for 1 minute. 
2. Add salt and Peanut butter and stir until peanut butter is homogeneous with the chocolate mixture. 
3. Add vanilla and stir. Then add Quick Oats. Stir until oats are well covered. 
4. Spoon out cookies onto wax paper. Makes about 3 dozen cookies.

Alternate idea: instead of making cookies, spoon the hot chocolate oatmeal mixture over ice cream for a variation on hot fudge!