Oatmeal Cookies "the Best"

3 eggs, well beaten
1 cup raisins
1 tsp vanilla
1 c butter
1 c brown sugar
1 c white sugar
1 ½ c flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1 ½ c oatmeal
½ c wheat germ
¾ c chopped pecans
Combine eggs, raisins, and vanilla and let stand for 1 hour covered with plastic wrap. Cream together butter and sugars. Add flour, salt, cinnamon and soda to sugar mixture. Mix well. Blend in egg-raisin mixture, oatmeal, wheat germ and chopped nuts. Dough will be stiff. Drop by heaping teaspoons onto ungreased cookie sheet or roll into small balls and flatten slightly on cookie sheet.
Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes or until lightly browned. Yields 6 dozen.

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from: Stake Taster Table before General RS Meeting

Oatmeal Bean Cookies

1 cup cooked pinto or kidney beans
1 cube margarine, melted
1 cup brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp baking powder
2 1/2 cups oatmeal
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 1/2 to 3 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda

Blend beans, margarine, eggs and vanilla together in a blender until smooth.


Cream bean mixture together with sugar.  Add remaining dry ingredients.  Put in balls the size of walnuts and press on greased cookie sheet.  Bake at 400 degrees F for 8 to 10 minutes.

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