"Best" Oatmeal Cookies

Typing recipe as given originally with my notes in parenthesis.

3 Eggs, Well Beaten
2 cups raisins
1 Tbls Vanilla
1 cup Brown Sugar
1 cup White Sugar
2 1/1 Cups Flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp Cinnamon (I use the Penzey's Baking Mix)
2 tsp Baking soda
2 cups Oatmeal - Old Fashioned, not quick cooking
1 cup chopped nuts (I've used both walnuts and pecans.)
1 cup margarine (I use unsalted butter. I don't like cooking with margarine.)

Combine eggs, raisins and vanilla. Let stand for 1 hour covered with plastic. Cream margarine and sugars; add rest of the ingredients. Mix well. (I do this in my mixer as it's a bit stiff by hand.) Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes.

(I cover my cookie sheet with parchment paper and use tablespoons to drop. This makes roughly 2" cookie and makes about 3 1/2 dozen. Also watch your first batch. My old old oven isn't the most accurate in the world and I found I needed to bake about 15-16 minutes as they weren't done at 12 minutes so cooking time may be off in the recipe or my oven is just goofy or she does them in teaspoon sizes.)

Paula's Note at the bottom:

Sometimes God calms the storm and sometimes He lets the storm rage and calms his child.