Oatmeal Cookies

1 pound of butter
2 cups sugar
2 cups brown sugar
4 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
4 cup flour*
1 tsp salt
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
4 cups oatmeal
3 cups nuts
2 (12 oz) packages of chocolate chips

Cream butter and sugars, add eggs, beating well. Add vanilla. Sift** together flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda. Add flour mixture to the butter/sugar/egg mixture.

Add oatmeal, nuts and chocolate chips.

Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes. Do not over bake.

*I usually use whole-wheat flour for all of the flour. For each cup of whole-wheat flour you substitute, add 1 extra teaspoon full of baking powder.

**I NEVER sift while using this recipe, but it was included on the original recipe, so I thought I would pass it on to you.

***We never put nuts in it, but I'm sure they would be good with nuts.

****This makes a lot of dough and the baked cookies don't taste as good after a few days. We make a sheet or two of cookies and freeze the rest. Use a cookie scoop to make dough balls, place side by side on a cookie sheet with wax paper and put it in the freezer. Once they are frozen transfer them into freezer zip lock bags. We usually have enough dough to use two gallon size zip lock bags.

From: Amy Bishop