No-Bake Boiled Chocolate Fudge Oatmeal Cookies (Peanut Butter Op - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 cups granulated sugar
3 tablespoons cocoa
1/2 cup milk
1/4 cup butter or 1/4 cup margarine
3 cups quick-cooking oats
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Optional
1/2 cup peanut butter (plain or crunchy)
1/2 - 1 cup nuts

Preparation

Prepare a cooling surface: sanitize and butter a countertop, butter foil, or spread waxpaper.
In a large saucepan, mix sugar, cocoa, milk and butter.
Bring to a boil and cook for one minute.
(You will notice gloss disappear from mixture and slowly start to become more matified, at this point you must work very quickly. If this happens to completely during cooking, you might want to pour mixture into a bread pan and slice and serve like fudge or simply start over. When this occurs while spooning, speed it up!).
Remove from heat and quickly add oats and vanilla (as well as peanut butter and nuts if desired).
Drop immediately and rapidly by teaspoonful on waxed paper or buttered countertop.
Let stand 1/2 hour until cool (if you can). Cookies will set as they cool.