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Two-Minute Cookies Recipe

My mom used to pack these cookies into our school lunches. They're inexpensive and easy to prepare, so all seven of us children learned to make them. Now they're also a favorite of my two children's.

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Two-Minute Cookies Recipe

Prep/Total Time: 15 min.

Yield: 18 Servings

5 10 15

Ingredients

1/2 cup butter, cubed
1/2 cup milk
2 cups sugar
3 cups quick-cooking oats or old-fashioned oats
5 tablespoons baking cocoa
1/2 cup raisins, chopped nuts or coconut

Directions

In a large saucepan, heat butter, milk and sugar. Bring to a boil, stirring occasionally. Boil for 1 minute.
Remove from the heat. Stir in the oats, cocoa, raisins, nuts or coconut. Drop by tablespoonfuls onto waxed paper. Cool. Yield: about 3 dozen.

Nutritional Facts 1 serving (2 each) equals 203 calories, 6 g fat (3 g saturated fat), 15 mg cholesterol, 56 mg sodium, 35 g carbohydrate, 2 g fiber, 3 g protein.

Originally published as Two-Minute Cookies in Country Woman November/December 1991, p35