Today is National
Homemade Cookie Day. I'm going to have
to make some cookies with my youngest today.
She will want chocolate chip, I'm going to try and get her to agree to
oatmeal chocolate chip.
Here is an old
recipe that I got from my Mother-In-Law the year Hubby and I got married. It was published in the Christmas Cookie
Cookbook published by the First Baptist Church, in Amherst Nova Scotia.
Diane's
Chocolate Chip Jumbles
1 cup
butter or margarine
3/4
cup Brown Sugar
3/4
cup White Sugar
1 egg
1 Tbsp
water
1 tsp
vanilla
1 1/2
cups flour
1 tsp
soda
1/2
tsp salt
1 cup
oatmeal
1 pkg
chocolate chips
Nuts
(if desired)
Cream
together butter and sugars before adding egg, water and vanilla. Sift together flour, soda, salt, and then add
to creamed mixture. Add oatmeal,
chocolate chips and nuts. Drop onto
baking sheet. Bake at 370F. Yield 6-8 doz.
No
baking time is given in this recipe but I have found that 8 to 12 minutes works
in my oven.
It's also the first
of October. My simple goals for this
month are
- Increase my daily steps to 8000 a day by the end of the month.
- Drink my water, 8 cups a day minimum
- Spend 30 minutes less watching tv everyday
I'm in a daily
challenge to post a picture of the cover of a favorite book on Facebook right
now. Today's book is
I read this book the
first time way back when I was in junior high.
I have since read it a few more time.
Stats from yesterday
Steps:14304
Active Minutes: 106
Stairs: 7
Water: 2
