Deluxe Butterscotch Oatmeal Cookies

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cups unsifted blached all-purpose flour
• 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon allspice
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1/2 pound (2 sticks) unsalted butter (softened)
• 5 tablespoons solid shortening
• 1 1/4 cups + 1 tablespoon granulated sugar
• 1 cup firnly packed light brown sugar
• 2 extra-large eggs
• 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
• 2 1/2 cups quick-cooking (non instant) rolled oats
• 1 1/4 cups butterscotch-flavored chips
• 1 cup coaresly chopped walnuts
• 1 cup dried cherries
• 1 cup dried cranberries

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 375F.

2. In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, cream of tartar, salt, nutmeg, cinnamon, allspice and cloves; mix thoroughly.

3. In another large bowl, cream butter and shortening. Add and mix in half granulated sugar. Mix in the other half of the granulated sugar. Mix in the brown sugar.

4. Add eggs one at a time, blending after each. Blend in vanilla.

5. Slowly blend the flour into the mixture, then mix in oats. Stir in butterscotch chips, walnuts, cherries and cranberries.

6. Drop by rounded two-tablespoon sized mounds on greased cookie sheets and bake for about 15 minutes; cookies are done when they no longer have a wet, unbaked look.

7. Let cookies stand for abotu 5 minutes to cool on cookie sheets, then remove to wire racks to cool.

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