Oatmeal Cookies

I cook a lot. I like to cook. I don't bake so much. Cakes and cookies don't do a lot for me. Bread does, but I stink at making it. Therefore, I don't modify baking recipes. I have a few I like and use and I don't vary from the written recipe at all. Because then it might not turn out. And I would be really irritated that I went to all that time only to mess it up. So, when we moved into our new house and I couldn't find anything (including my white sugar) and I wanted cookies, I got a little desperate. I knew what I had on hand and what I wanted in the cookies (oats and lots of brown sugar) but I couldn't find any recipes online that came even close. At this I had to resort to making up my own recipe. I do have some concept about what certain ingredients in cookies do, so taking this and my general knowledge of the proportions in my other cookie recipes, I came up with these:


1/2 c softened butter
6 oz brown sugar
1 egg + 1 yolk
1/4 tsp salt
3/4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
2 1/2 oz wheat flour (preferably wheat pastry flour, it's ground more finely)
3 1/2 oz white flour
2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp vanilla
7 oz old fashioned oats
optional chocolate chips

Cream butter and sugar together. Add eggs. Add dry ingredients and vanilla. Add chocolate chips if desired. Dough will be sticky. Drop by spoonfuls onto parchment paper lined cookie sheet. Bake for 10 minutes at 350 degrees, turning sheet halfway through. Transfer to rack and cool.