These hearty cookies are chewy in the middle and crisp on the edges. I just recently started making these again after a 20 year break. I called up my mom to get the recipe and she just told be she used the recipe from the oatmeal box. This is basically the same ingredient list with the addition of a little nutmeg.
Preheat Oven to 375°F
1 cup butter, softened
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt (optional)
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg (optional)
3 cups rolled oats (not quick cook)
1 cup raisins (you can also use dried cranberries)
Cream butter, sugar and eggs together. In a separate bowl mix the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, salt and nutmeg. Slowly add this to the creamed butter mixture until blended. Add oats and blend well. Fold in raisins by hand.
Bake 11-13 minutes until browned on edges. Cool 1 - 2 minutes on cookie sheets and then remove to wire cooling rack. Makes about 30 cookies when rolled into 1 1/4" circles.
Ingredients for making Oatmeal Cookies.
Beat 1 cup of butter until smooth.
Add 1 cup of dark brown sugar to butter and mix well.
Mix in 1/2 cup of granulated sugar.
Add 2 egg yolks and beat until light and fluffy.
Scrape down sides of bowl occasionally to ensure even mixing.
Add 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract.
Mix dry ingredients together in a separate bowl. Start with 1 3/4 cups of flour.
Add 1 teaspoon of baking soda.
Add 1/4 teaspoon of salt to dry ingredients.
Add 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon.
Grind 1/4 teaspoon of nutmeg using grinder or rasp (you can also use store bought ground nutmeg). A little goes a long way.
Use a whisk to gently mix together the dry ingredients until blended.
With miser on low, slowly add the dry ingredients, scraping down sides of bowl occasionally.
Once dry ingredients are blended, slowly add 3 cups of rolled oats to the dough.
Mix in oats until just blended.
Add 1 cup of raisins and fold in with a wooden spoon.
Roll dough into 1 1/4 inch balls and spread evenly on ungreased cookie sheet.
Oatmeal cookies baking.
Let cool for 1 - 2 minutes on cookie sheet.
Remove cookies from cookie sheet and let cool on cooling racks.
Oatmeal Cookie detail.
Oatmeal Cookies.
Oatmeal Cookies.
Oatmeal Cookies.
