Oatmeal Cookies

Light and crunchy and good for you!

Preheat oven to 350 degrees with rack in middle position

I cup of butter ( 2 sticks)
¾ cup white granulated sugar
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup flour (no need to sift)
2 cups of oatmeal (Quaker oats old fashioned)
1 egg yoke

Melt the butter in a microwave safe bowl on high for approximately 11/2 minutes and let it cool to room temp.

Mix in the white sugar. Add the baking soda, flour, and oatmeal and stir thoroughly.

Beat the egg yoke with a fork until it is thoroughly mixed and add it to the bowl and stir until it is incorporated.

Grease a standard size cookie sheet. Make small balls of dough and place them on the cookie sheet (12 per sheet). Press them down with a fork in a crisscross fashion like you would with peanut butter cookies. Bake for 10 – 12 minutes or until they have just started to brown around the edges. Let cookies cool for a minute or two and transfer to wax paper until they complete cooling. This will make approximately 5 dozen according to cookie size.

As seen in Key Lime Pie Murder -
A Hannah Swenson Mystery with Recipes – by Joanne Fluke