Pumpkin Cookies

[kragore]

(from the back of the Libby's "Solid Pack Pumpkin", circa 1983.)

4 Cups unsifted all-purpose flour
2 cups quick or old fashioned oats, uncooked
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon salt
1.5 cups butter or margerine, softened *1
2 cups firmly packed brown sugar
1 cup granulated sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract *2
1 can (16 oz.) Libby's aolid Pack Pumpkin *3
1 cup real semi-sweet chocolate morsels 4*

Assorted icings or peanut butter
Assorted candies, raisins, or nuts

Preheat oven to 350. Combine flour, oats, soda, cinnamon and salt; set aside.
Cream butter; gradually add sugars, beating until light and fluffy.
Add egg and vanilla; mix well.
Alternate additions of dry ingreadients and pumpkin, mixing well after each addition. Stir in morsels.
For each cookie, drop 1/4 cup dough onto lightly greased baking sheet; spread into a pumpkin shape useing a thin metal spatula. Add a bit more dough to form the stem. *5
Bake at 350, 20-25 minutes, until cookies are firm and lightly browned. Remove from cookiesheet, cool on racks.
Decorate useing icing or peanut butter to affix assorted candies, raisins, or nuts into jack-o-lantern faces. *6
Yields about 32 large cookies.


*1 - Mom used Crisco for fluffier, cakier cookies.
*2 - can be omitted if you have none.
*3 - any solid pack pumpkin will do.
*4 - or substitute raisins if you want it more healthy.
*5 - or use your darned finger, and leave them round if you're in a hurry.
*6 - or leave blank if you're in a hurry. the decorations don't make the cookie - the cookie alone is awesome.