Cowboy Cookies

I stole this recipe from the Moosewood Dessert book, but I suspect they in their turn stole it from somewhere else: a guest at a party to which I brought a batch exclaimed ‘Cowboy Cookies, yippie!’, but denied all knowledge of Moosewood.

Ingredients:

1 c. butter ½ c. white sugar ½ c. brown sugar 2 eggs 1 tsp vanilla extract 2 c. flour ½ tsp salt 1 tsp baking soda ½ tsp baking powder 2 c. rolled oats 12 oz. chocolate chips

Note: butter and sugar both weight essentially twice as much as flour, so this recipe is essentially a 1 flour 1 butter 1 sugar type concoction, skewed by the addition of oats. The cookies turn out rather dry: for a chewier variant, experiment with more sugar, or perhaps fewer oats. Walnuts and raisons are legitimate additions.

Discipline the butter and sugars, introduce them to the eggs and vanilla, and fuse this gloop with all the dry ingredients except the oats and the chips, which for inexplicable reasons are to be added in a separate step (5 quid says it makes no difference.) Bake on ungreased sheets at 350 for about 15 minutes