Clementine's Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients:

1 1/4 c Margarine, softened
Chocolate Chips
12 oz Ghirardelli Semi-Sweet
Fashioned), uncooked
3 c Quaker Oats (Quick or Old
1/8 ts Nutmeg
1 ts Cinnamon
1/2 ts Salt
1 ts Baking soda
1 1/2 c Unsifted flour
1 ts Vanilla
1 Egg
1/2 c Sugar
3/4 c Packed brown sugar
1 c Chopped walnuts

Method:

DIRECTIONS: Heat oven to 375-F.
Cream margarine with sugars until light and fluffy.
Beat in egg and vanilla.
Stir flour with baking soda, salt and spices; add to creamed mixture, mixing well.
Stir in oats.
Fold in chocolate chips and walnuts.
Drop by rounded tablespoon onto ungreased cookie sheets.
Bake 8 to 9 minutes for a chewy cookie, 10 to 11 minutes for a crisp cookie.
Cool 1 minute on cookie sheet; remove to wire cooling racks.
Store in tightly covered container.