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Breakfast Cookies

Source of Recipe

From "Morning Food" by Margaret Fox


Recipe Introduction

You have permission to eat these cookies for breakfast. All the ingredients are things you might eat for breakfast, anyway. If you eat a couple of these, guzzle a glass of juice, and take a coffee-to-go, you'll be in great shape until lunch. You might take an extra couple to work or school to munch on during a break.

List of Ingredients

• ½ cup butter
• 2/3 cup brown sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 cup regular oats, uncooked
• 1 cup Grape Nuts (or a crunchy flake cereal if Grape Nuts are too crunchy for your taste)
• ½ cup peanut butter (optional, but delicious)
• 2½ cups flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp salt
• 1/3 cup plus 1 Tbsp wheat germ
• 1/3 cup plus 1 Tbsp oat bran
• 1/3 cup plus 1 Tbsp nonfat dry milk powder



Recipe

Preheat oven to 350° F.

Cream the butter and sugar. Add the egg, then the oil and vanilla. Stir in the remaining ingredients. Form the dough into balls about the size of a walnut. Place on ungreased cookie sheets and flatten with a fork.

Bake for 12 to 18 minutes, depending on the size of the cookie dough balls. Check the bottoms. Because the dough is very brown to begin with, you must watch this closely. Remove from the pan and cool on racks.

Makes about 5½ dozen.