Fruit Cookies Recipe

Ingredients for Fruit Cookies

• 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

1. 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.
2. About 5 cups flour will be sufficient.
3. Roll out, cut with cooky cutter, lay on vegetable shorteninged tins and bake in moderate oven from ten to twelve minutes.
4. Sufficient for sixty cookies.