Myrna's Uncooked Cookies

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 3 cups oatmeal (rolled oats)
• 4 tablespoons cocoa
• 1 1/2 cups sugar (or even a bit less)
• 1/2 cup butter or 1/2 cup margarine
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
• 1/2 cup milk (any milk is fine, even skim)

Recipe

• 1 please read all steps before starting! gather all your ingredients, measuring cups, spoons and lay out a couple feet of wax paper, it all comes together very quickly.
• 2 in a pot over medium high heat, add your butter or margarine and melt, try not to boil.
• 3 when the butter is melted add the milk then sugar, stir only enough to mix the sugar into the mixture.
• 4 add the cocoa, using the back side of a spoon, press any cocoa lumps against the side of the pot (stir as sparingly as possible).
• 5 when the mixture comes to a boil add the vanilla, gently stir in (again, only a couple of stirs).
• 6 let boil for about 1 1/2 minutes (2 minutes maximum),.
• 7 take off the burner and add the oatmeal, roll the oatmeal in, again gently, minimizing the stirring (you may have to add a bit more (1/4 cup maybe) than 3 cups of oatmeal if the mixture is not thick enough to build mounds).
• 8 drop onto the wax paper in whatever size cookies you desire, and let set up for awhile (which is usually about 5 minutes at our house.).
• 9 this will yield about 24 cookies, you can easily double the recipe, which i always do as they will go quick and they do keep well -- hope you enjoy and will provide feedback -- :o).
• 10 note: over stirring and/or over boiling will result in the cookies setting up too hard and they dry out too quickly.