Fruit Cookies Recipe
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Ingredients for Fruit Cookies Recipe
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups brown sugar
- 1 cup vegetable shortening
- 1 cup chopped raisins
- 1 cup chopped English walnut meats
- 3 eggs
- 1 teaspoon powdered cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon powdered allspice
- 1 teaspoon powdered ginger
- 1½ teaspoons baking soda
- 2 tablespoons sour milk
- Flour
Instructions
- Cream vegetable shortening and sugar together, add salt, eggs well beaten, soda mixed with milk, spices, raisins, nuts, and enough flour to make stiff dough.
- About 5 cups flour will be sufficient.
- Roll out, cut with cooky cutter, lay on vegetable shorteninged tins and bake in moderate oven from ten to twelve minutes.
- Sufficient for sixty cookies.









