Grandma Bailey’s Raisin Cookies

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Grease two baking sheets.

2. Put raisins and water in a sauce pan. Bring to a simmer and cook for 5 minutes. Drain and cool.

3. With an electric mixer, cream together butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla.

4. In a separate bowl, sift together flour, soda, powder, salt, nutmeg and cinnamon.

5. With a mixer on low speed, alternate adding flour mixture and raisins to the butter mixture.

6. Stir in nuts.

7. Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls onto greased cookie sheets. I used a large cookie scoop and because of their size, I only put 8 cookies on each baking sheet.

8. Bake at 375 degrees for 8-10 minutes. Immediately transfer to a wire rack to cool.

Yields 48 Texas-sized cookies!