Cooking With Margaret

This is a cookie recipe that I am always looking for during the holidays. I love to add these cookies to my cookie platters during the upcoming holiday season, and they are a favorite of friends and family! Hope you like them!  Coconut Oatmeal Cookies  Ingredients 1 cup shortening 1 cup sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 eggs Sift together  1 1/3 cup flour  1 teaspoon baking powder  1 teaspoon baking soda  1 teaspoon salt Stir  In 2 cups oatmeal  2 cups coconut Directions Preheat oven to 350 degrees  Cream together shortening, sugar and vanilla until light and fluffy.  Add 2 eggs, one at a time Gradually add the sifted ingredients until combined (do not over mix)  Stir in oatmeal and coconut  Form cookie dough balls into size of 1/2 a golf ball, spacing them about 2 inches a part as they are cookies that spread Bake for 9-11 minutes or until the edges are golden brown Transfer to a cooling rack, allow...

One of my mom’s favorite cookbooks is A Taste of Oregon which she’s had for as long as I can remember, and around this time of year, we start making cookie platters for all of our friends and family to show them how much we care for them. This is always one of the recipes that we always make, because it is a favorite of everyone’s.  Peanut Blossoms Makes about 5 dozen Ingredients  Cookies Ingredients  1 cup granulated sugar 1 cup brown sugar 1 cup butter, softened  1 cup peanut butter  1/4 cup of milk or cream 2 eggs 1 tablespoon  of vanilla 3 1/2 cups sifted flour 2 teaspoons baking soda 1 1/2 teaspoon salt For Assembly  Granulated sugar 2 10oz bags of chocolate kisses, unwrapped  Preheat oven to 375 Cream softened butter, sugars and peanut butter until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Sift flour, salt and baking soda together and stir into egg mixture.  Shape into balls  Roll in sugar,  Place on ungreased baking sheets....

This recipe was given to my mom by a close family friend. I’ve tweaked it and changed some ratios on add ins and other things, so enjoy!  Here is the story it came with: "A woman from the American Bar Association called Mrs. Fields Cookies and asked for the recipe. She was told there was a "two-fifty" charge for the recipe. She assumed it was $2.50, and charged it to her Visa. When she received her statement and discovered that it was indeed "two-fifty"; Two HUNDRED and Fifty dollars. In order to get her money's worth she is passing it on to everyone. Make a copy and give it to a friend with a blessing."  Mrs. Fields Cookies Preheat oven to 375 degrees  2 cups Butter, room temperature  2 cups Sugar 2 cups Brown Sugar 4 eggs, room temperature  1 tablespoon of vanilla  3 1/2 cups flour 6 cups ground oatmeal  (put small amounts into a blender and blend until it turns to powder. Measure first, then blend) 2 teaspoon salt 3 teaspoon baking powder 3 teaspoon...