RECIPE: Oatmeal (Chocolate Chip) Cooky Bars
Bake at 375 F.

2 cups      flour
2 cups      quick-cooking oats
1 cup       brown sugar
1/2 cup     sugar
1 tsp       salt
1 tsp       baking soda
1 tsp       vanilla
2           eggs
1/2 cup     margarine, melted (1 stick)
1/2 cup     vegetable oil
1 cup       chocolate chips
1 cup       butterscotch chips

Mix all ingredients by hand in large mixing bowl. Spread in 13"x9"x2" pan
(I used a rubber spatula) and bake at 375 degrees for 20 minutes. 

Cool and cut into bars.

--Bobbie and Harry Brunk, Whitney NE [from "How To Feed A Starving Artist
Cookbook," Mountain Press Publishing Co., Missoula MT 1983; pg 244]

Mountain Press Publishing Co., P.O. Box 2399, Missoula MT 59806

March 1994, C.S.F. Baden, P.O. Box 17522, Anaheim CA 92817.


Update: This is an extremely quick-and-easy *and* durable recipe.
I've made it with all chocolate chips, and with the half chocolate chips
/half butterscotch chips; with and without nuts; and so forth.

The most interesting variation I have to report involves using Crisco.
This wasn't one of those Crisco butterflavor sticks.  It was plain old
ordinary Crisco vegetable shortening.  Since our microwave failed, I
have to do the "melt butter" step in a saucepan.  This time I decided I'd 
use Crisco.  I measured the canola oil into a measure up to the 1/2 cup
line, then added Crisco until it came up to the 1 cup line.  I poured it 
in the pan, heated it up until it all melted... I let it cool a little 
bit, and then poured it into the dry ingredients, which included the 
chocolate chips.

It melted the chocolate.

Instead of chocolate chip bar cookies, I had chocolate brownies.  

They were good, too...

October 1994, C.S.F. Baden

[Mar. 2019. I use room-temperature butter, not margarine; and an extra
cup of chocolate chips.]

[May 2019. In my jelly roll pan, they're not as thick. Baking one pan
for 20 minutes seemed to be slightly too long. Baking two batches at
the same time definitely need more than 15 minutes.]

[Dec. 2020. In the 13x9 pan, sprinkling a cup of mini chocolate chips on
top is too much.  Next time I'll try half a cup.]

[Dec. 2021. With three cups of morsels - 1 cup each of chocolate chips, 
butterscotch chips, and mini chocolate chips - and my 9x13 pan, 25 
minutes seems about right. Maybe 24.]

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