Categories: Cookies, Desserts 
      Yield: 60 servings 
  
      1 c  (2 sticks) margarine or but 
  1 1/4 c  Firmly packed brown sugar 
    1/2 c  Granulated sugar 
      2 x  Eggs 
      2 T  Milk 
      2 t  Vanilla 
  1 3/4 c  All-purpose flour 
      1 t  Baking soda 
    1/2 t  Salt (optional) 
  2 1/2 c  Quaker oats (quick or old- 
           Fashioned, uncooked) 
      2 c  (1 12-oz. pkg.) semi-sweet 
           Chocolate morsels 
      1 c  Coarsely chopped nuts 
           (optional) 
  
  Heat oven to 375.  Beat margarine and sugars until creamy.  Add eggs, milk, 
  and vanilla; beat well.  Add flour, baking soda and salt, mix well.  Stir 
  in 
  oats, chocolate morsels and nuts; mix well.  Drop by rounded measuring 
  tablespoons onto ungreased cookie sheet.  (for easy bar cookies press dough 
  instead into bottom of ungreased 13 X 9 inch baking pan.)  Bake cookies 
  9 to 10 mins for chewy and 12 to 13 for crispy (bake bar cookies 35 to 40 
  mins until light golden brown).  Cookies:  cool 1 min on cookie sheet; move 
  to wire rack.  Cool completely.  ABout 5 dozen cookies.