Market Mystery Cookies

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Title: Market Mystery Cookies
Categories: Cookies
Yield: 100 servings

1/2 c Butter
1 c Dark brown sugar (packed)
1 1/4 c Old fashioned rolled oats
2 tb Old fashioned rolled oats
1 lg Egg; lightly beaten
1 ts Vanilla

Recipe may be doubled, but no more.
Melt butter in top of double boiler over simmmering water. Stir in sugar
until lump-free and smooth, stir in oatmeal, then egg. Cook dough
uncovered, 1 hour over bareluy simmering water, stirring
occasionally.Remove top of double boiler from heat, add vanilla and let
dough stand at room temperature 1 hour, to firm. ( dough is quite runny
when hot.) Preheat oven to 350 F . Cover cookie sheets with foil, set
aside. drop dough by level 1/4 teaspoonful, 1/2 inch apart. Bake 7 minutes
or until well-browned. Cool to lukewarm, when cookies will peel away from
foil. Store in tightly covered container, with padlock, if desired. Makes a
little over a pound, about 200 tiny cookies, of 10 calories each.

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