Vegan Oatmeal Cookies

My very favourite cookies (especially with chocolate chips)!  They don’t contain any eggs, so if you are vegan just use margarine instead of butter, and perhaps currants instead of chocolate chips.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup margarine
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/2 cup boiling water
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 cups rolled oats
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 1 cup chocolate chips (or currants, raisins, walnuts or combination)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.  Cream margarine, adding sugars gradually.  Cream in vanilla.  Meanwhile boil water in the kettle.  Put the baking soda into a half cup measure, and pour boiled water onto it.  It fizzes right up!  Gradually add that to the mixture, continuing to cream it.  Blend in rolled oats, salt, and flour.  Finally add in the chocolate chips or currants or whatever you prefer.  Drop teaspoonfuls onto an ungreased cookie sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes, until just browning around the edges.  Cool 10 minutes before removing from cookie sheet with a metal spatula.

One batch fills 3 cookie sheets, so be sure to share with friends!