My friend Laura goes to yard sales every Saturday morning, and
she brings home the most wonderful old cookbooks. Often they're filled
with recipes cut out of magazines, or scribbled on bits of paper and
used as bookmarks. This is one of those recipes, source unknown, circa
1979, stuffed into a copy of Woman's Home Companion Cook Book, published by PF Collier & Son in 1942. Here's the recipe, word for word, with all of its charming original punctuation.
3 cups oatmeal
1-1/2 cups flour
1-1/2 cups brown sugar
1-1/2 cups butter
1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
Dump all ingredients into a large bowl. Mash! Knead! Pound! The longer and harder you mix, the better the cookies will taste!
Roll dough into small balls. Place on cookie sheet and bake at 350 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes.