Betty Crocker – Oatmeal Drop Cookies

Ingredients

• ½ cup soft shortening (113g Lard)
• 1¼ cup sugar (approx. 250g)
• 2 eggs
• 6 tbsp molasses
• 1¾ cups sifted GOLD MEDAL Flour (approx. 193g plain flour)
• 1 tsp soda
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 2 cups rolled oats (approx. 170g)
• ½ cup cut-up nuts (approx. 65g)
• 1 cup cut-up raisins (approx. 160g)

Method

1. Mix together the shortening, sugar, eggs and molasses.
2. Sift together and stir in, the flour, soda, salt and cinnamon.
3. Stir in the oats, nuts and raisins.
4. Drop rounded teaspoonfuls about 2″ apart on lightly greased baking sheet.
5. Bake until lightly browned.

Baking

• Bake in a mod. hot oven for 8 to 10 minutes.
• 190°C–200°C, 375°F–400°F , Gas Mark 5–6, Fan 170°C–180°C

Quantity

• About 5 doz. 2½″ cookies.

Title

Betty Crocker Picture Cooky Book

Author

General Mills Company – Betty Crocker was not a real person; she was a fictional persona created in 1921 by the Washburn-Crosby Company (which later became General Mills).