Categories: Cookies, Drop 
      Yield: 48 cookies 
  
    1/2 c  Butter or margarine; soft 
    1/2 c  Granulated sugar 
    1/2 c  Brown sugar, firmly packed 
      1    Egg 
      3 oz Unsweetened chocolate 
           -- melted and cooled 
    1/2 ts Soda 
    1/2 ts Salt 
    1/2 c  Dairy sour cream 
    1/2 c  Milk 
      1 c  Quaker Oats, uncooked 
           -- (quick or old-fashioned) 
 
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      2 tb Butter; soft 
      3 c  Sifted confectioners' sugar 
      1 ts Vanilla 
      3 tb Milk 
 
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           Pecan halves 
  
  Beat butter and sugars together until creamy.  Blend in egg and melted 
  chocolate.  Sift together flour, soda and salt.  Add to creamed 
  mixture alternately with sour cream and milk.  Stir in oats.  Drop by 
  teaspoonfuls onto lightly greased cooky sheets.  Bake in preheated 
  moderate oven (375 F.) 10 to 12 minutes; cool. 
   
  For frosting, combine all ingredients.  Beat until smooth and of 
  spreading consistency.  Frost cooled cookies.  Top each cooky with a 
  pecan half. 
   
  Source: Our Favorites for family and friends 
  Reprinted with permission from The Quaker Oats Company 
  Electronic format courtesy of Karen Mintzias