Granola Cereal Cookies

• 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
• ½ teaspoon soda
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• ½ cup butter

• 1 egg
• 3 tablespoons milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 cups of your favorite granola cereal

Heat oven to 350 degrees.  Grease cookie sheet.  In small bowl, combine flour, soda, and salt.  Mix well.  In large bowl, beat together sugar and butter until light and fluffy; blend in egg, milk and vanilla.

Add flour mixture, mix well.  Stir in cereal.  Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto prepared cookie sheet.  Bake for 10 to 12 minutes.  

Makes 3 dozen.

After graduating from high school, I went to spend the summer with my Grandma B. My older brother was also living there.  Now, this was back in the seventies when "Boxed" Granola Cereal was a new thing.  Well, I convinced my Grandma B. to buy some and she loved it.  

This recipe was on the back of the cereal box, and we just had to try it out…we baked batch after batch after batch.  They were a hit with my friends and her friends!  We baked so many cookies (which is amazing in itself because the cookie dough is just as scrumptious as the baked cookie!) that we soon had containers full of them in the freezer.

Now, the freezer was in the basement, and that’s where my brothers room was-- I slept upstairs.  But every once in a while, I would just desperately have to have a Granola Cereal Cookie, frozen or not, what did I care!  I just had one, two or three…

Well, before long, Grandma went down to the freezer to get a container full of cookies.  She brought it upstairs and it was only half full. Needless to say, she blamed the missing cookies on my brother because he slept in the basement and was closest to them!  Sorry Brian!