No Bake Oatmeal Cookies

• 2 cups sugar
• ½ cup butter
• ½ cup cocoa
• ½ cup milk
• ½ cup peanut butter
• ½ cup chopped nuts (if you like)
• 3 cups quick rolled oats
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Mix sugar, butter, cocoa and milk in saucepan. Bring to boil quickly. Reduce heat to medium and boil 3 or 4 minutes, or until forms a soft ball when dropped into cold water. Stir in peanut butter -- I like to use the chunky kind, and leave out the nuts. Stir in oats and vanilla. Drop by spoonfuls onto waxed paper (freezer paper works better), or I usually just spread in a greased cookie sheet then cut in squares.

Jaunita Oliver stayed with me when one of the children was born -- must have been Mary Beth -- anyway, Connie was upset when she came home from school and had to do the dinner dishes and clean up the mess because Jaunita hadn't had time. We did make and enjoy these cookies a lot, though.