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 (6 oz.)
1 cup       butterscotch chips (6 oz.) (I used more chocolate 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. (My oven
leaks so I set it for about 25 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


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