Recipe: Yummy Old Fashioned Oatmeal Cookies

Old Fashioned Oatmeal Cookies.

You can have Old Fashioned Oatmeal Cookies using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Old Fashioned Oatmeal Cookies

1. Prepare 3/4 cup of shortening or butter.
2. You need 1 cup of brown sugar.
3. Prepare 1/2 cup of sugar.
4. Prepare 1 of egg.
5. It's 1 tbsp of water.
6. Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla.
7. Prepare 1 cup of all-purpose flour.
8. You need 1 tsp of salt.
9. Prepare 1/2 tsp of baking soda.
10. Prepare 1 tsp of cinnamon.
11. You need 2 1/2 cup of oats.
12. It's 1 cup of raisins (optional).
13. You need 1 cup of Dark Chocolate Chips (optional).

Old Fashioned Oatmeal Cookies step by step

1. Cream shortening and sugars..
2. Add egg and water, mix.
3. Sift together flour, salt, soda and cinnamon. Mix into creamed butter mixture..
4. Stir in vanilla, oats and raisins or chocolate chips..
5. Bake at 350°F for 12 - 15 minutes. Makes about 5 dozen cookies..