Top-of-the-Stove Cookies

Name: Top-of-the-Stove Cookies
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 1 min
Total time: 21 min
Ingredients: 2 cups sugar; 3 tablespoons cocoa; 1 stick margarine; 1/2 cup milk; 1 teaspoon vanilla; 1/2 cup peanut butter; 3 cups quick oats

Top-of-the-Stove Cookies is a favorite cookie or candy featuring cocoa, margarine, vanilla, preserved from the family cookbook.

Prep 20 minCook 1 minTotal 21 min

A serving of Top-of-the-Stove Cookies featuring cocoa and margarine — Representative stock photo · alibree / flickr / BY 2.0

Method

Make something worth remembering.

Method

In a saucepan, bring the sugar, cocoa, margarine and milk to a full rolling boil. Boil for 1 minute. Remove from the burner and add the vanilla, peanut butter an oats. Beat together until well mixed. Drop by teaspoon full onto waxed paper. Cool thoroughly before removing.

Family note

What makes this ours

I made this a million times when I was in high school. It was my very favorite cookie.

MMRecipe contributed byMarie Martell Isbell