1 cup raisins cooked in 2 cups water until plump. While cooking raisins, mix 2 sticks oleo with 1½ cups sugar. Add 2 eggs and beat well. Sift together 2½ cups flour, 1 tsp soda, 1 tsp cinnamon. Add to sugar mixture alternately with 1 cup of liquid drained from the raisins. If not enough liquid to make 1 cup, add water. Mix with dough. Add raisins, 1 tsp vanilla and blend well. Bake on lightly oiled cookie sheet at 350º for 20 minutes or til dough springs back when touched with finger. Ice with thin powdered sugar glaze as soon as taken from oven. Makes 4 dozen.