Best Oatmeal Cookies

A Carolina mountain recipe for Best Oatmeal Cookies.

AmericanOtherIntermediate60 minBy Northstar

Ingredients

Servings
4
  • 0.8 cup Low ft margarine, room temp
  • 0.5 cup Packed brown sugar
  • 1 0.5 cup All purpose flour
  • 1 ts Ground cinnamon
  • 1 0.5 cup Oats, uncooked
  • 1 ts Vanilla
  • 1 cup White sugar
  • 2 Egg whites, slightly beaten
  • 1 ts Baking soda
  • 0.3 ts Ground nutmeg
  • 1 cup Raisins

Instructions

  1. 1

    In a large mixing bowl, beat margarine and sugars until light and fluffy. Add egg whites. In a me- dium size bowl, combine flour, baking soda, cinnamon and nutmeg; add to sugar mixture. Stir in oats, raisins and vanilla. Chill 1 hour. Preheat oven 350F. Roll a teaspoon of dough into a ball and place on an ungreased cookie sheet. Grease the bottom of a glass with margarine, dip glass in sugar and use to flatten ball of dough. continue, leaving adequate space between cookies. Bake 10 min. Cool on racks.

Tags

carolinas-cooking