Oatmeal cookies

Preheat oven to 350

Bake 1½ cups walnuts or pecans 5 min.

Beat together:

1 cup crisco
2 T water

1¼ cup dark brown sugar

2 eggs

2 t vanilla extract

Sift:
1 ½ cups white flour or ¾ cup white flour and ¾ cup white whole wheat flour
1 t baking powder
1 t (kosher) salt

Add:
1 t cinnamon
3 cups Old Fashioned Oats


Mix all these ingredients, then add the 1½ cups walnuts

and if you want, 1½ cups raisins

Drop 2" mounds on greased baking sheet, bake 12-16 minutes