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 cookiesPre-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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