My Mother's Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
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I used to think giving away cookies was my own idea, but apparently it's
in my genes. My mother always hated to cook, so I was really surprised when I was standing in the receiving line at her wake and almost every other person offered their sympathies and then commented that they'd never forget my mother, because she was always baking cookies and giving them away.

Mom's specialty was oatmeal chocolate chip. I found a copy of her recipe when I was digging through her old recipe file the other day.
--Suzanne Beecher

My Mother's Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
 
1 cup butter
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup light brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp real vanilla
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
3 cups oatmeal (the regular kind that takes 5 minutes to cook)
Chocolate chips (see note below)
 
Mix the flour, baking soda and salt together. Mix remaining ingredients together with the flour mixture and then add the chocolate chips. My mother never indicated how many, but I added two overflowing cups of chocolate chips.
 
Bake at 375 degrees for 12 -15 minutes until they are light brown. Cool and freeze if you like.

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