Oatmeal and Peanut Butter Cookies

Mom’s Peanut Butter Cookies
The ones she has been making for as long as I can remember.

1 cup of margarine
1 cup of sugar
1 cup of brown sugar
1 tsp of vanilla
2 beaten eggs
1 cup of peanut butter
3 cups of flour
2 tsp of soda
1/4 tsp of salt

Cream margarine and sugars, add vanilla, eggs and peanut butter, mix together dry ingredients and add.

Roll into walnut size balls, press with a fork and bake.
325* for 10-12 minutes


Brenda’s Oatmeal Cookies
A recipe I made up when I twelve.

Mix in a bowl:
1 cup of flour
3/4 tsp of soda
1/2 tsp of salt
1 tsp of cinnamon
1 tsp of nutmeg
Cream together:
3/4 cup of butter / margarine
1 1/3 cup of brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp of vanilla
Add dry ingredients to butter sugar mixture as well as:
2 cups of oatmeal
1 cup of raisins (golden are good)
1 cup of coconut
1 cup of chopped pecans
1 cup of bran flakes or corn flakes

Spoon onto cookie sheets
350* for 8 - 10 minutes