Sharon Smyth's Raisin Oatmeal Cookies

from the Dark Shadows Celebrity Cookbook

Are you still finding yourself running home from school to watch...do I need to actually say it?  Well if you're like me and you still do, then you'll want a supply of these nice old fashioned cookies on hand.  Sharon Smyth has contributed her favorite recipe for Raisin Oatmeal Cookies to the Dark Shadows Celebrity Cookbook and they are great.  You can make them pretty quickly too.  Assemble the ingredients, mix, bake, and clean up in under an hour and what you have is an awfully nice treat, better than you can buy at the store or bakery.  Oatmeal cookies are better for you and these you can have for breakfast in the car if you're commuting to work, or pack them in school lunch boxes.  They are wonderfully crisp on the outside and just nicely chewy on the inside.  The cinnamon makes them extra tasty and you find yourself coming back for another before you've finished the one you're eating.  And with a glass of ice cold milk they are absolute perfection!  It is possible that little Sarah Collins tasted cookies such as these at Collinwood in 1795.  The ingredients would have been common to upper class households in eighteenth century New England, although sweets and treats for children were few and far between.  But who would have baked them is what I want to know.  I don't think Naomi Collins spent much time in the kitchen after nipping at the sherry bottle for most of the day, so it must have been Victoria Winters who did some cooking after she arrived.  She surely would have been glad to make treats to keep the Collins family happy.  As a final note, if you have your cookie jar full of these delicious morsels, they are just the thing for those sleepless nights when at about 3 a.m. you put on a Dark Shadows DVD and need a healthy snack while you watch a couple of your favorite episodes.  Ask me how I know this!