This is my Mom's old cookie jar. I know nothing about it except it was usually filled with our favorite cookies ! I am tickled to have it, it brings back such memories...
So here are the cookies that Mom always made for us. She called them "Cowboy Cookies".
I don't know why.. they are like 'toll house' cookies,but a bit heartier. Here is the recipe, and it is easy..
Cowboy cookies
Pre-heat oven to 325 degrees
Cream
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
1 cup shortening ( I use Crisco)
2 eggs
add
2 cups Quaker oats (quick cook are easier to chew-you can use whole oats)
2 cups sifted flour
1 tsp. soda
1 tsp. salt
add
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup chocolate morsels
( you can add 1/2 cup walnuts or pecans, chopped..or raisens, whatever you want)
drop by teaspoon on cookie sheet, that will make each cookie about 2 inches across, and bake for about 12-15 minutes. I check each batch after 12 minutes.
Thats it!
Enjoy! We did!
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2 comments:
I love sentimental pieces like that. I have several pieces from my childhood, one being a Santa fireplace broom. It's fun to watch my children play with it like I did.
I have NOTHING from my childhood. Not one thing. I guess that's because I grew up in Jersey City in a tiny apartment they called "railroad rooms." No closets. Our clothes hung on the back of the doors. Very tiny. Maybe that's why I'm sentimental about old things. I blogged about it, how it makes me sad to see people's stuff in antique stores and I think about the stories behind these things. Who loved it, why was it brought to an antique shop... Anyway, I found a cookie jar like that in a Dumpster. Not a scratch on it. I'll have to fill it with some of those cookies. They sound delicious!
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