2 Sticks butter
3 cups old fashioned oatmeal
1 cup brown sugar
½ cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
1 ½ cup flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp basking powder
1 tsp. cinnamon
½ tsp. salt
1 ½ cup raisins

Preheat oven to 350°.

In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon and salt. In mixer, cream butter and sugars. Add vanilla. Add eggs one at a time. Gradually add oatmeal until mixed. Add in flour mixture one cup at a time. Mix in raisins by hand.

Drop cookie dough by teaspoonful onto cookie sheets. Make 12 minutes. Cool on sheets 10 minutes; with a thin metal spatula, transfer to racks to cool completely.