On Jun 3, 11:19*am, Roy > wrote:
> With conventional recipes I can get crisp and I can get crumbly cookies
> but I want "chewy".
>
> What do I increase or decrease to get the desired results?
>
> The last ones I made were made with butter and they tasted great but crumbled
> terribly. Before that I used margarine and they were too crisp.
>
> This cookin' business sure ain't easy for us old bachelors.

If you overbake them they get too crisp. Here is the recipe that
will pretty much guarantee the kind of oatmeal cookie you are looking
for. It's my favorite.

http://hizzoners.com/recipes/cookies...raisin-cookies