Fruit 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
To prepare this Fruit Cookies Recipe, first cream Crisco and Sugar together, 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. Roll out, cut with cooky cutter, lay on Criscoed tins and bake in moderate oven from ten to twelve minutes.

Sufficient for sixty cookies.