Grandma M's Soft Raisin Spice Cookies
"I have craved these for weeks and it took me that long to find them in her collection. Grandma has been gone for two years and I miss her baking so much. I couldn't find the recipe because she called them Delicious Drop Cakes but they are cookies."
- Ready In:
- 25mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Yields:
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18-24 Cookies
- Serves:
- 1
ingredients
directions
- Cream butter and sugar.
- Add well beaten egg.
- Sift flour and spices.
- Add raisins and nuts.
- Mix together nuts and raisins in flour.
- Slowly add flour, spice, nuts and raisins to egg, butter and sugar.
- Add quickly baking soda dissolved in hot water.
- Mix well until all liquid comes together.
- Drop from spoon on greased pan.
- Bake 10 minutes at 350. Watch, till slightly browning on the bottom edge.
- These might take a tad longer in your oven, mine cooks high. This is just a guesstimate because Grandma just had Bake as the next instruction so time and heat was a guess for me. They are nice and soft and I have double the recipe without any problems.
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Reviews
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Serves 1, lol
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I don't uunderstand what the baking soda in water is for? Cookies have an aftertaste that taste that I attribute to the baking soda. The allspice is a bit strong in this recipe. I would suggest ginger instead. Sorry they are just not good enough for me to include them in my personal favourites so don't see me making them again. -
These taste wonderful, but I must have screwed something up. I put them all on the cookie sheets the same size. Some got huge, others stayed tiny, and they all came out flat. Maybe the wayer wasn't hot enough for the baking soda? I'm puzzled. They still get 4 stars though. Can't stop eating them. -
I had one of these and immediately wanted another which really isn't like me so you know these had to be delicious! Just one note, these make a fluffy cookie almost like cake. They are not your traditional chewy or crispy cookie (perhaps leaving the water out would change that?)
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KennKonn
Canada
<p>I love to bake, I love to cook and I have a nasty cookbook/recipe fetish (looking at my mom's and grandma's collections Its genetic I think!!). I also collect Pillsbury Dough Boy things. I am very anal and competetive when it comes to my food...I like to entertain but find I over do it.<br /><br />I am married to my best friend, we have two kids and have been married?10 1/2 years. We are not fussy eaters except the hubby hates beets. I can live with that one thing. <br /><br />I grew up on a mixed ranch just east of the Sask/AB border south of Lloydminster. I grew up around horses and cattle. I love going home back to the animals and the farm. I spent a lot of my childhood with my grandma. She was a wonderful baker who went through the depression, I learned so much from her from her experiences. I love making her "heritage" recipes, brings my childhood back for my children and my brothers who enjoyed the treats. Her Blueberry muffin recipe is one of my absolute favorite. When I was still at home I was put in charge of meals at harvest time from the time I was old enough to use the stove. I loved coming home from school to make a big meal to haul out the field. All my friends when home to sit in front of the tv and I stood at the stove. <br /><br />I grew up in the local 4-H club, spent 10 years as a member. I am still a huge supporter of our club and very proud of its history. My mom and I organized a 50th Anniversay cookbook in 1997. It is probably my most used paper cookbook...zaar being my most used online of course. <br /><br />I love to can. I started with Aunt Lori's salsa a few years ago. I have expanded to jams, jellies, pickles,..whatever catches my eye at the time. I am a berry picker and love that fresh fruit to make the homemade jams and jellies. Being raised in Sask we have the opportunity to pick a variety of wild berries...Saskatoons, pincherries, chokecherries, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, thorn apples, gooseberries,currents...we have picked them all. <br /><br />I will rarely post anything less than a 4 star review and most of the time just won't post a review until I have tried the recipe a second time. It could be my error. I don't count the dayhome kids opinion in my ratings because they like something one day and hate it the next <br /><br /><img src="http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg271/MrsTeny/Permanent%20Collection/PACSpring09Iwasadopted.jpg" alt="" /></p>
