Cracker Jack Cookies I

Description

This is a very old recipe from at least the 30’s. The name comes from the old expression meaning ‘great’.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup butter
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 1 cup packed brown sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 2 cups quick cooking oats
  • 1 ½ cups flaked coconut
  • 2 cups crisp rice cereal
  • 1 ½ cups chopped salted peanuts

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets.
  2. In a medium bowl
  3. cream together butter
  4. white sugar
  5. and brown sugar. Beat in eggs
  6. one at a time
  7. then stir in vanilla. Sift together flour
  8. baking soda
  9. baking powder
  10. and salt; stir into creamed mixture. Gently stir in oatmeal
  11. coconut
  12. rice cereal
  13. and chopped peanuts.
  14. Drop dough by teaspoonfuls onto the prepared cookie sheets. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes in the preheated oven. Remove from cookie sheets to cool on wire racks.

Servings: 36

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