Gram's Oatmeal Cookies

2 1/4 Cup Flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
Combine and set aside

1 Cup butter
1 Cup sugar - gradually add to butter
1 Cup brown sugar - add
2 eggs- add
1 tsp vanilla - add
Blend in dry ingredients.

Gradually stir in 3 Cups rolled oats (1 Cup nuts, raisins or ch chips - optional)

Form into balls - flatten with moistened glass bottom

Bake at 350 for  10 mins

I am not generally an oatmeal cookie fan but I just at 5 of these cookie . . . they were THAT good! I added chocolate chips and they turned out great.  I love the recipe because it is so simple and I had all the ingredients on hand as this was a last minute decision to bake.

Grandma Josie's Pinch Cookies

6 Eggs Beaten
2 C Sugar
2 C melted Crisco
2 C Milk
1 Whiskey Glass full of Lemon, anisette or Vanilla (3 Tbs)
6 Tsp Baking Powder
9 C Flour

Mix in a large bowl
Put on board and kneed a little
Pinch tsp size piece of dough and drop on wax paper

bake at 350 for 20 mins to a flint brown

cool and cover with butter icing

Gram's Gobs

2 C Sugar
1/2 C Crisco
2 Eggs
1 C buttermilk
3/4 C boiling Water
1 tsp vanilla
4C Flour
1/2 C Cocoa
2tsp baking Soda
1/2 tbs Salt
1/2 tsp Baking Powder

Cream together sugar, Crisco and eggs
add buttermilk, water and vanilla

In another bowl sift together flour, cocoa, baking soda, salt,baking powder

Add dry ingredients to liquid mixture

Spoon (tsp) on to ungreased cookie sheet

Bake 5 mins at 400 or 9 mins at 325

Put two cookies together with gob frosting