{"id":489,"date":"2016-04-06T02:29:31","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T02:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grandmascookbook.ca\/?p=489"},"modified":"2016-04-06T02:29:31","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T02:29:31","slug":"oatmeal-chocolate-chip-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grandmascookbook.ca\/2016\/04\/oatmeal-chocolate-chip-cookies\/","title":{"rendered":"Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Do you think people add oatmeal to cookies to fool themselves into thinking they are eating something healthy? These oatmeal cookies were good; but I did misread the portions and may have put in a LOT of oatmeal, and perhaps too much salt… (I am a rule-follower’s nightmare; always getting away with not measuring, or only using 1 measuring cup for all measurements) All this aside, I would make them again, even with lots of oatmeal.<\/p>\n

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They are soft cookies, not chewy, that harden up a bit with time. My husband was smothering them with peanut butter and downing them in 2’s, like sandwiches!<\/p>\n

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Grandma’s recipe cards don’t often have instructions for cookies. I follow the basic rules of butter\/sugar blend, then wet ingredients, followed by dry. This method hasn’t let me down yet, as I haven’t had to re-make any of Grandma’s English recipes.<\/p>\n

Here is Grandma’s recipe card:<\/p>\n

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And please use the link at the bottom to print JUST the recipe below:<\/p>\n

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Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies<\/h3>\n
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  • 1 cup margarine<\/li>\n
  • 1 cup sugar<\/li>\n
  • 2 eggs<\/li>\n
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla<\/li>\n
  • 1 1\/2 cup flour<\/li>\n
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda<\/li>\n
  • 1\/2 teaspoon cinnamon<\/li>\n
  • 1\/2 teaspoon salt<\/li>\n
  • 2 cups (12 oz package) Chocolate Chips<\/li>\n
  • 1 1\/4 cup quick oats<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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    1. Beat margarine and sugar together until fluffy. \u00a0Add eggs & vanilla.<\/li>\n
    2. Stir\u00a0dry ingredients separately (or loosely mix on top of wet ingredients) and add to margarine\/sugar mixture.<\/li>\n
    3. Quickly mix in\u00a0chocolate chips and oatmeal at the end.<\/li>\n
    4. Drop by Tablespoon full onto ungreased cookie sheet.<\/li>\n
    5. Bake at 375 for 12 – 14 minutes.\u00a0 <\/span>Makes about 4 dozen.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n
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      Do you think people add oatmeal to cookies to fool themselves into thinking they are eating something healthy? These oatmeal cookies were good; but I did misread the portions and may have put in a LOT of oatmeal, and perhaps too much salt… (I am a rule-follower’s nightmare; always getting …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandmascookbook.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandmascookbook.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandmascookbook.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandmascookbook.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandmascookbook.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandmascookbook.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandmascookbook.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandmascookbook.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandmascookbook.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandmascookbook.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandmascookbook.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}