Recipe: Tasty Grandma's Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

Grandma's Oatmeal Raisin Cookies. This recipe is great and I don't like Oatmeal Raisin Cookies. I loved that you can taste the spices and that they turn out soft not hard like every other Oatmeal cookie I've had before. GRANDMA'S Oatmeal Raisin Big Cookies in bulk are a delicious combination of great taste and good fun baked into one great snack.

I've been going through our family's stash of recipes and came across my grandmother's oatmeal cookie recipe. These yummy oatmeal raisin cookies are an old-fashioned favorite. The easy drop cookies are spiced with a mixture of cinnamon and nutmeg. You can have Grandma's Oatmeal Raisin Cookies using 13 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Grandma's Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

1. You need 1 1/2 cup of raisins.
2. It's 1 cup of water.
3. Prepare 2 stick of of butter, softened.
4. You need 1 cup of light brown sugar, packed.
5. You need 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
6. It's 1/2 cup of granulated sugar.
7. You need 2 of eggs.
8. You need 1 1/2 cup of flour.
9. Prepare 1 tsp of baking soda.
10. You need 1 tsp of cinnamon.
11. It's 1/2 tsp of nutmeg.
12. You need 3/4 tsp of salt.
13. It's 2 1/4 cup of dry quick oats ( not instant, uncooked).

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Grandma's Oatmeal Raisin Cookies step by step

1. in a small bowl combine raisins and water. place in microwave and cook for 1 1/2 minutes on high. let stand 10 min. and then drain completely..
2. meanwhile.. preheat oven to 350 and prepare baking sheet by greasing with butter or cooking spray..
3. in a large bowl combine butter and sugars. using a beater blend until creamy..
4. add eggs and vanilla and beat again until well mixed..
5. in a seperate bowl.. sift together flour, baking soda, nutmeg and cinnamon..
6. add flour mix to butter mix and mix well..
7. add oats and mix well then fold in raisins..
8. drop by heaping tablespoon onto prepared cookie/baking sheets. make sure u leave enough room for them to spread out. about 2 inches apart..
9. bake for 12 min. or until golden brown..
10. leave to cool on baking sheets for about 3 min. then transfer to wire cooling racks to cool completely..
11. serve!.

Add dry mixture to wet mixture and stir to combine. Add in the oats (I used Quaker old fashioned). Drain the raisins, then add the now cooked raisins to the mixture. Blend well on low speed, just don't What's interesting about this oatmeal cookie recipe is that is does not use brown sugar, uses lard and boiled raisin water. I have never seen a recipe.