Quaker Choc-oat-chip Cookies

cookies, desserts

1 cup (2 sticks) margarine or but
1 1/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 single eggs
2 tablespoon milk
2 teaspoon vanilla
1 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt (optional)
2 1/2 cup quaker oats (quick or old-
1 fashioned, uncooked)
2 cup (1 12-oz. pkg.) semi-sweet
1 chocolate morsels
1 cup coarsely chopped nuts
1 (optional)

Heat oven to 375. Beat margarine and sugars until creamy. Add eggs, milk, and vanilla; beat well. Add flour, baking soda and salt, mix well. Stir in oats, chocolate morsels and nuts; mix well. Drop by rounded measuring tablespoons onto ungreased cookie sheet. (for easy bar cookies press dough instead into bottom of ungreased 13 X 9 inch baking pan.) Bake cookies 9 to 10 mins for chewy and 12 to 13 for crispy (bake bar cookies 35 to 40 mins until light golden brown). Cookies: cool 1 min on cookie sheet; move to wire rack. Cool completely. ABout 5 dozen cookies.