Anna Marie Jensen's Chocolate Chip or Raisin Oatmeal Cookies

Mix the egg, vanilla, and water together in a bowl. Mix the sugars, the flour, soda, and salt together in a big bowl. Then add the shortening into the sugar/flour in the big bowl, and mash it with your hands until it combines and makes pea-sized chunks.

Then, add the egg mixture and fold it in. Then, add everything else. At first when you add the oatmeal, it will seem too dry and as if you cannot get all the oats into the mixture, but you can get it all in.

Either chocolate chips or raisins work very well. If you go the route of chocolate, however, only use premium, top-of-the-line chips, not the bargain basement stuff.

Drop by spoonfuls onto baking sheet(s) and bake at 350 degrees F for 10-12 minutes or until done.