Fruit Cookies

Description

Sufficient for sixty cookies.

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoonful salt
• 2 cupfuls brown sugar
• 1 cupful Crisco
• 1 cupful chopped Raisins
• 1 cupful chopped English walnut meats
• 3 eggs
• 1 teaspoonful powdered cinnamon
• ½ teaspoonful powdered allspice
• 1 teaspoonful powdered ginger
• 1½ teaspoonfuls baking soda
• 2 tablespoonfuls sour milk
• flour

Directions

1. Cream Crisco and Sugar together
2. Add salt, eggs well beaten, soda mixed with milk, spices, Raisins, nuts, and enough flour to make stiff dough. About 5 cupfuls flour will be sufficient.
3. Roll out, cut with cookie cutter
4. Lay on Criscoed tins and bake in moderate oven from ten to twelve minutes.