Spicy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

Ingredients:

• 4 cups butter or margarine, softened
• 2 qts. brown sugar, packed
• 8 eggs
• 3 Tbsp. vanilla
• 1 3/4 qts. all-purpose flour
• 2 1/2 qts. quick cooking oats
• 3 Tbsp. Clabber Girl Baking Powder
• 1 tsp. salt
• 3 Tbsp. ground cinnamon
• 4 tsp. ground allspice
• 2 cups raisins

Instructions:

Beat butter until fluffy; beat in sugar, eggs and vanilla.

Combine flour, oats, Clabber Girl Baking Powder, salt and spices. Stir into creamed mixture. Stir in raisins.

Scoop batter, using 1 1/2 oz. scoop, onto baking sheets; flatten to 2 1/2 inch diameter.

Bake at 350 degrees F. until cookies are beginning to brown at the edges, about 15 minutes.

Cool on wire racks.

Yield: about 12 dozen cookies