Recipe: 00299
Title : Clinton Cookies 
Author: Shannon Hughes 
Date  : August 1995

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+1 1/2c. unsifted all-purpose flour
+1 tsp. salt
+1 tsp. baking soda 
+1 c. solid vegetable shortening  (we used Crisco)
+1/2 c. granulated sugar
+1 c. firmly packed light brown sugar 
+1 tsp. vanilla extract 
+2 eggs
+2 c. old-fashioned rolled oats
+12-oz. pkg. semisweet chocolate chips (we used Nestle) 
 
 
        Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Combine flour, salt, and baking 
soda. 
Beat together shortening, sugars, and vanilla until creamy.  Add eggs,
beating until light and fluffy,  Gradually beat in flour mixture and 
rolled oats.  Stir in chocolate chips.  Drop batter by well-rounded
teaspoonfuls onto cookie sheets.  Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until
cookies are done .  Cool cookies on sheets for two minutes before 
placing them on wire rack for further cooking.  Yield: 7 1/2 dozen
cookies.

                Shannon Hughes

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