Market mystery cookies

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       Title: Market Mystery Cookies
  Categories: Cookies
       Yield: 100 servings
  
     1/2 c  Butter
       1 c  Dark brown sugar (packed)
   1 1/4 c  Old fashioned rolled oats
       2 tb Old fashioned rolled oats
       1 lg Egg; lightly beaten
       1 ts Vanilla
  
      Recipe may be doubled, but no more.
      Melt butter in top of double boiler over simmmering water. Stir in sugar
   until lump-free and smooth, stir in oatmeal, then egg. Cook dough
   uncovered, 1 hour over bareluy simmering water, stirring
   occasionally.Remove top of double boiler from heat, add vanilla and let
   dough stand at room temperature 1 hour, to firm. ( dough is quite runny
   when hot.)    Preheat oven to 350 F . Cover cookie sheets with foil, set
   aside. drop dough by level 1/4 teaspoonful, 1/2 inch apart. Bake 7 minutes
   or until well-browned. Cool to lukewarm, when cookies will peel away from
   foil. Store in tightly covered container, with padlock, if desired. Makes a
   little over a pound, about 200 tiny cookies, of 10 calories each.
  
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