Name: Agression Cookies
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 12 min
Total time: 22 min
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 3 cups brown sugar or regular; 3 cups butter or margarine; 6 cups oatmeal; 3 cups all-purpose flour; 1 tablespoon baking soda; 1 teaspoon salt; Optional additions: 3 cups of raisins, chocolate chips, or a combination of both.; For cinnamon lovers: add 2 tablespoons of ground cinnamon; Aggression Cookies with Peanut Butter Oatmeal Version; 3 cups rolled oats; 1 1/2 cups brown sugar; 11/2 cups flour; 1 1/2 cups salted butter; 11/2 teaspoons baking powder; 1 teaspoons salt; 1 teaspoons cinnamon; 1 cup chocolate chips; 1 cup chunky peanut butter

This recipe for Aggression Oatmeal Cookies is the first one I ever made in our classroom in the school for home economics back in the 1970s

A recipe also called depression cookie is all made by hand (no mixers here) using very basic simple ingredients easily found, rolled by hand, and just an old-fashioned cookie jar oatmeal cookie.

Real made-from-scratch basic oatmeal cookies were very popular and found in many American homes back then.

If you looking to make a large number of cookies, this is the perfect recipe for oatmeal cookie lovers

It was always a treat for us all the mix the cookies as a family project and the results were always delicious and our favorite oatmeal cookie made with love.

Depression Cookies and Hard Times

Retro recipes are the best when there are food shortages and grandma and mom lived during war times when things were very tough to get staples and money was tight so they worked with what we had to stretch a dollar.

We learned quickly in high school that those days may happen again in the future and it was time to adapt to change by being grateful for what we have and not what we wished for.

Between school and my family and hard times, we learned the value of our dollar and to be very frugal..

While there were food shortages many families learned to adapt recipes to what they had on hand and these cookies are a fine example.

Mom always taught us to be thankful she would say "we will make the best of what we got and there is always someone worse out there".

So, it's no surprise these cookies were a delicious addition and creation when we had very few ingredients to work with in recipes and this cookie remains a favorite family cookie and is very much appreciated.

Simple Ingredients Needed

brown sugar or regular
butter or margarine
oatmeal
flour, all-purpose
baking soda
Optional additions: 2 cups of raisins, chocolate chips, or a combination of both. For cinnamon lovers: add 2 tablespoons of ground cinnamon

Suggestions and Additions:

Peanut butter chips
Chocolate or white chips
Nuts of any kind, pecans, walnuts, pistachios, hazelnuts, brazil nuts
Coconut shredded
Raisins or another dried fruit
Chopped fresh cranberries

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Easy Cookies Molded and Shaped By Hand

These cookies are a great family learning tool, teaching kids to appreciate simple things in life is the best, and working together to learn an appreciation for the little things we get is grand.

Grandma and Mom learned to "make do" and we were always grateful for whatever we had, the teachings live on in my children and now their children and this Oatmeal Aggression cookie has made the best of memories.

Agression Cookies

Yield: 60

Author: Claudia Lamascolo

Prep time: 10 MinCook time: 12 MinTotal time: 22 Min

These are very large recipes made in our school home economics class in the 1970s. Basic oatmeal cookies were found in most American homes back then.

Ingredients

3 cups brown sugar or regular
3 cups butter or margarine
6 cups oatmeal
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking soda
Optional additions: 3 cups of raisins, chocolate chips, or a combination of both.
For cinnamon lovers: add 2 tablespoons of ground cinnamon
Aggression Cookies with Peanut Butter Oatmeal Version
3 cups rolled oats
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
11/2 cups flour
1 1/2 cups salted butter
11/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 cup chocolate chips
1 cup chunky peanut butter

Instructions

Aggression Cookies:
Put all the ingredients in a large bowl.
Mix the ingredients together by hand until the dough holds together by squeezing, and kneading until it is completely blended.
Roll into small balls about 1 to 1 1/2 inches in size.
Place on an ungreased cookie sheet. Butter the bottom of a small glass and dip into white sugar and cinnamon, then pound the cookies flat.
Bake at 350 degrees for about 10 to 12 minutes.
Note: this is optional: sprinkle each cookie with a cinnamon/sugar mixture before baking.
Oatmeal Peanut Butter Version:
Mix everything except the chips and peanut butter and add them at the end.
Folding and blending evenly.
Roll into balls. Bake at 350 degrees for around 12 minutes.