Spiced Cookies
Dorothy Leuschpage 23
Ingredients
- 1/2 Cup Shortening
- 2 Eggs, well beaten
- 1 Cup Brown Sugar, packed
- 1 and 3/4 Cups All-Purpose Flour
- 1/2 Cup Sour Milk (add 1/2 teaspoon of vinegar to sour whole milk)
- 1/4 Teaspoon Salt
- 1/4 Teaspoon Nutmeg
- 1 Cup Raisins
- 1 Teaspoon Ground Cloves
- 1/2 Teaspoon Cinnamon.
- 1/2 Teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1 Cup Nuts, chopped
Instructions
Cream the shortening and sugar in a mixer. Add the eggs and mix in. Sift the flour, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and soda together. Mix the dry ingredients with the nuts and raisins. Add to the creamed mixture, alternately with the milk. Drop by spoonfuls on a cookie sheet and bake at 350 degrees for 10 to 15 minutes.