The Authentic Mrs. Field's Cookies!

Cream Together,

        1/2 cup butter
        1/2 cup sugar
        1/2 cup brown sugar

Add,
        1 egg
        1/2 tsp. vanilla

Take 1 1/4 cup oatmeal - put small amounts in blender;
blend until it turns to powder - set aside;

Take a 2 oz. plain Hershey bar - grate in blender
        or by hand - set aside;

Mix,
        Oatmeal
        1 cup flour
        1/4 tsp. salt
        1/2 tsp. baking powder
        1/2 tsp. baking soda

Combine all above ingredients ( except chocolate)
        Mix well

Add,
        1 6-oz bag of chocolate chips
        grated Hershey bar

Make golfball-sized cookies
Bake on an ungreased cookie sheet for 6 minutes at 375ø
(We doubled the recipe for a large bag of chips.)

                        ENJOY!

The cookie recipe was distributed by a woman who
saw an add for the purchase of the recipe.
She thought that the price of the recipe was $2.50,
so she sent her Visa card number so that they could
charge her $2.50 on it.  Well she got her recipe,
but when she received her Visa Statement, she
then realized that she was charged $250 not $2.50.
She explained that she misunderstood the add, but
by then she already knew the recipe, so it was
too late.  She even took the matter to court, but all
her efforts were useless.  So, she wants everybody to
know and use the recipe, so please tell all your
friends.  I can't stand how much Mrs. Fields
charges for her cookies.  A 50 cent cookie cost
no more than 4 to 5 cents to make.  Doesn't that
just make you angry!  If this was a more honest
business, I wouldn't bitch about it, but it isn't
so I'm bitching about it!!  Let's stop such
profit making!!!  Use the recipe, give it to all
your friends, upload it to as many boards you
can, do whatever you can to stop this madness.

Credits:
  
   1. The original source of this file is unknown. I downloaded
      it from the PATCHBAY BBS in Glendale, CA in November, 1990.
      The file contained a reference for Dave Lahoti (213) 924-4058.

   2. My wife followed the recipe exactly. The cookies came out a
      bit chewy, so she increased the time to 7 minutes. Our daughter
      said that they tasted exactly like the expensive Mrs. Fields
      kind - sounds like a winner, so I'm uploading this file to 
      every BBS I can access! --Mike Proctor 11/26/90.