Oats

This outstanding oatmeal cookie recipe calls for dates instead of the usual raisins. You can use raisins if you want to, but dates will give you an exceptional result.

These are oatmeal cookies for everyone, even those who say they don’t like ’em. From Sidney Carlisle’s article Oatmeal Cookies: Nutritious Comfort Food.

This oatmeal cookie recipe contains raisins, and specifies that the raisins be chopped into pieces. Believe it or not, this makes a big difference in the taste of these cookies. From Sidney Carlisle’s article oatmeal cookies.