Ranger Cookies

Slightly modified from the Bread Becker's Recipe Collection.
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Ranger Cookies

• 1 cup Butter
• 2 cups White Sugar
• 1 tbsp Molasses 
• 2 Eggs
• 1 tsp. Vanilla
• 2 1/2 cups Wheat Flour (we have a mill and use hard red wheat)
• 1 tsp Baking Soda
• 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
• 1/2 tsp Salt
• 2 1/2 cups Rolled Oats
• 1/2 cup Shredded (unsweetened) Coconut
• 1/2 cup Millet (or nuts, but millet tastes better)
• 1/2 cup Raisins (or chocolate chips, or 1/4 cup of each)

Preheat oven to 350F.

Mix butter, sugar, and molasses together until creamy. Add eggs and vanilla and beat well.

Combine flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Add to butter/sugar mixture and mix well. 

Stir in oats, coconut, millet, chocolate chips/raisins and mix well.

Put parchment paper on a baking stone and drop the cookies on it by tablespoonfulls (or use an ungreased cookie sheet). Cook for 10 minutes (or so, our oven needs about 15) until light golden brown.

Pull out of the oven and let them sit on the cookie sheet for about a minute, then transfer them to a wire rack to cool. 

Makes about 2 dozen cookies (I haven't ever managed to get an accurate count since they get eaten so quickly).

I have no idea why they're called Ranger Cookies, but I'm kind of hoping it's less "Park Ranger" or "Army Ranger" and more Aragorn son of Arathorn...

Here is a picture of Clarence the Neon Bird for no other reason than because he loves millet as much as I do (and almost as much as he loves his reflection).