Ice Box Oatmeal Cookies

This is a very special recipe... our family has been using it for generations!  We make Grandma's ice box oatmeal cookies every Christmas, and in between times too.  The recipe always gets doubled, because we like to eat thick slices of dough before we ever bake the cookies.  If you mix a batch of these up today, they'll be ready to pop in the oven tomorrow afternoon!

 

Grandma's Ice Box Oatmeal Cookies

1/2 cup butter

1/2 cup Crisco

1 cup white sugar

1 cup brown sugar

2 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 1/2 cups sifted flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

3 cups quick oats

1/2- 1 cup nuts (we use pecans)

1/2-1 cup coconut

Cream butter and Crisco.  Add sugars, cream until smooth.  Add eggs and vanilla-- beat.  Add dry ingredients, then oatmeal, nuts, & coconut.  Lay out two long pieces of waxed paper.  Place 1/2 dough on each sheet, and form into a log.  Wrap log in waxed paper, twisting ends to "seal".  Keep refrigerated overnight.

  

Cut log into 1/2" to 3/4" slices.  Bake at 350 degrees.  Do not over bake!  These cookies should look soft set when taken out of the oven.  (Grandma never says how long to bake them... so you'll have to figure that one out for yourself.  But trust us-- the result is worth the effort!)

PS... Isn't it the cutest thing that Grandma (our great-grandmother who is 92) calls a refrigerator an ice box? 

Comments

[mandy]

Excellent recipe! Thanks for posting! My grandmother called the refridge an ice box too.