Oatmeal Cookies

• 1 cup (2 sticks) butter or margarine softened
• 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 3 cups oats (quick or old fashioned, uncooked)
• 1 cup raisins (I have substituted dried cranberries for raisins and that tasted good too)

• Heat oven to 350ºF
• Beat together butter (or margarine) and sugars until creamy
• Add eggs and vanilla; beat well
• Add combined flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt; mix well
• Stir in oats and raisins; mix well
• Drop by rounded tablespoons onto ungreased cookie sheet
• Bake 10-12 minutes* or until golden brown
• Cool 1 minute on cookie sheet; remove to wire rack

*Our feeling is that good cookies are soft cookies. That means you have to stop about a minute before the recipe says - which is about a minute before it looks done. With the caveat that raw cookie dough, while sometimes tasty, can give you a stomachache ... which I know from experience.