Doretta Wheeler
1 c butter or margerine softenend
1/2 c granulated sugar
1-1/2 c whole wheat flour
2 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. nutmeg
1/2 tsp. ginger
1/4 tsp. clove
3 c. Quick Oats
1 tsp. vanilla
1 c firmly packed brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 c. raisins boiled in 1 c. water and cooled
Heat oven to 350. Cream butter and sugars. Add eggs and vanilla, mixing well. Add dry ingredients, mixing well. Stir in oats and raisins. Drop by rounded tablespoonfulls onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 10-12 minutes until golden brown. Cool 1 minute on cookie sheet. Transfer to wire rack.
Makes 4 dozen
* I got this recipe from my first visiting teacher as a newlywed. Doretta was a librarian at BYU for 40 years. She never married. She had come to the US from Australia to help her elderly mother who had immigrated previously. These cookies are dang good.
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