My Dad’s Vanishing Oatmeal Raisin Cookies are straight from the Quaker Oatmeal package, with a couple of tweaks, of course. These are the cookies that my Dad is famous for making down in Phoenix with all their snowbird friends. He takes them to every get-together they attend. Down there however, he can get these amazingly large raisins from Trader Joe’s ( we are talking huge!) and that makes all the difference in the world. If anyone has a lead on where I can get gigantic raisins (have you seen them at Bulk Barn maybe?) I would love to know! Huge raisins are the only way to go in oatmeal raisin cookies. I honestly don’t think that there is a better version of oatmeal cookies than the vanishing oatmeal cookie recipe. I’m not sure how long it’s been around but I would guess at least 60 years? It could be more, there are ads from 1905 for the oatmeal itself so that recipe could have come about any time after that! What I do know is that these are the cookies that I grew up with. Somehow no one makes them better than my Dad does either. I made this at his […] The post Dad’s Vanishing Oatmeal Raisin Cookies -Right Off the Quaker Oatmeal Package appeared first on The Kitchen Magpie. from http://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/vanishing-oatmeal-raisin-cookies-off-the-quaker-oatmeal-package/
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