Old Fashioned Walnut Raisin Cookies

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9 years ago

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Old Fashioned Walnut Raisin Cookies are chock full of nuts, raisins and warm autumn spice and are perfect for the season.

Old-Fashioned Walnut Raisin Cookies

By Sue Lau | Palatable Pastime

These cookies I actually came up with earlier in the summer and after taking photos and storing them in a file on my computer, were lost in the wilderness, being in a numbered file and obviously misplaced, with no way for me to tell cortana what it was I lost.

And while I was disappointed to lose the pictures, making them again is pretty easy work. And it’s a rock solid recipe based on a chox chip recipe I have used for a very long time, but made on a day when I was staring down a big bag of walnuts and wanted to mix them with spices and raisins, a little bit like the old Hermits cookies–or something similar to an oatmeal cookie (without actually using oatmeal as I think I didn’t have any at home).

A lot of times that’s how I come up with recipes- just finding ways to put together the things I already have. And since I try to save money buying things on sale and stocking up, when I do make my purchase, many times I don’t yet have a recipe in mind.

But I did manage to make these again as luckily I had not misplaced my recipe I’d typed out. And at that, I decided to share them for my first outing with the “Fill the Cookie Jar” bloggers group, which get together once a month to bake up a ton of cookies. You can see the others by clicking the inlinks button below, which takes you to the linky party page. Enjoy-

~Sue

Old-Fashioned Walnut Raisin Cookies

Servings: 54
Time: 1hr 15mins
Difficulty: easy
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Makes 4-1/2 dozen cookies

Ingredients:

1 cup room temperature butter
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tablespoon molasses
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon allspice
1/6 teaspoon nutmeg
1/8 teaspoon cloves
1-1/2 cups chopped toasted walnuts
3/4 cup golden raisins

Method:

Preheat oven to 350F.
Cream together butter and sugar.
Add eggs one at a time, then add molasses and vanilla.
Sift together the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, and cloves.
Add flour mix to wet mixture a little at a time, blending until smooth.
Stir in raisins and nuts.
Use a cookie scoop to drop dough onto a baking sheet.
Bake for 10-12 minutes, then cool one minute on the pan.
Finish cooling on wire racks.