Cookie Recipes
Soft, Chewy Oatmeal-Raisin Cookies
Make the batter the day before you bake the cookies.
Yield: approximately 60 cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup shortening
- 1 cup raisins
- 1 cup water
- 2 eggs
- 2 cups self-rising flour
- 1 1/2 cups quick oats
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
Instructions
- Cream sugar and shortening together by hand.
- Meanwhile cook raisins in the water until there are 5 tablespoons of water remaining. Cool.
- Mix flour, baking soda, oats and raisins together.
- Add eggs and the 5 tablespoons of water from the cooked raisins; mix well.
- Cover and refrigerate the batter overnight.
- The next day, heat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a cookie sheet.
- Drop teaspoons of the batter onto the prepared cookie sheet.
- Bake for approximately 13 minutes.
- Grease the cookie sheet again before dropping each batch of cookies onto the sheet.
- Cool completely before storing.