Ingredients

• 1 cup shortening [Use butter blend; see “Important Notes”]
• 2 cups brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 1 tsp. cinnamon
• 1 1/2 cups Grain Place Whole Wheat Flour
• 1 tsp. salt (optional)
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 3 cups Grain Place Rolled Oats
• 1/2 cup nuts, chopped

Cream shortening and sugar. Add eggs and vanilla. Stir in dry ingredients and add flakes and nuts. Mix well. Shape into rolls. Wrap in wax paper and chill. Slice and bake at 375° for about 12 minutes. Yield: 4 1/2 dozen.

*Some of Marie’s recipes list shortening or margarine as ingredients. We do not recommend the use of these products because they contain trans fats. In most recipes, good organic butter or vegetable oil or a combination of the two can be substituted for shortening. High-oleic organic safflower or high-oleic organic sunflower oil are good oil choices because they are high in monounsaturated oils. One of our customers makes her own “better butter blend” by whipping one part softened organic butter with one part organic high oleic sunflower oil, which she uses in place of shortening in recipes.