This Chocolate Chip Cookies (Oat Bran) recipe comes from a typewritten card filed under Cookies in My Mom’s Recipe Box. The original wording, measurements, yield, and calorie note are preserved here as they appear on the card.
Original Recipe Card
Ingredients
- 2 cups oat bran
- 1/2 cup flour
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/3 cup margarine,softened
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1/3 cup brown sugar
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 4 egg whites, slightly beaten
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
Directions
In a bowl, stir together oat bran, flour, baking soda and salt. In another bowl, cream margarine with sugar and vanilla. Beat in egg whites. Gradually add oat bran mixture and mix well. Stir in chips and nuts. Drop from tbsps. onto cookie sheets sprayed with non-stick spray. Bake at 375 deg. for 10 mins. or until golden brown.
Note From the Original
Cookies will be about the same size baked as they are when dropped on the cookie sheet.
Yield
Makes 2 dozen
Nutrition Information From the Original
111 calories per cookie
Preservation Notes
This recipe is preserved on an aged typewritten card with light discoloration, small marks and smudges, and wear along the lower edge. These physical details remain visible in the original scan.
Notes From the Original
The title appears on two lines, with “(OAT BRAN)” beneath “CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES.” The original spacing in “margarine,softened” has also been preserved rather than silently corrected.
About My Mom’s Recipe Box
This recipe is part of My Mom’s Recipe Box, an ongoing preservation project dedicated to my late mother’s original recipe collection. Every effort is made to preserve the original wording, organization, handwritten notes, typewritten cards, magazine clippings, corrections, and other details exactly as they appeared in her recipe box. When clarification is helpful, it is provided separately so the original recipe remains preserved.
