Recipe for Applesauce Cookies

Applesauce Cookies Recipe

Ingredients required
1/2 cup shortening
1 cup sugar what
1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
2 teaspoons soda
2 1/4 cup flour
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon cloves
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup raisins
1/2 cup nut meats, broken up

Preheat oven 300 degrees

Instructions for Applesauce Cookies Recipe

Cream together sugar and shortening. Add the applesauce in which soda has been dissolved. Sift in flour and spices with salt. Add raisins and nuts and drop onto a greased cookie sheet. Bake slowly for 15 minutes. Frost if you like.

Enjoy quick and easy recipes from an old cookbook made about fifty years ago from a rural community plus a recipe from the White House, Mrs.Gerald Ford, the First Lady's Strawberry Blitz Torte recipe about 1975. Also a recipe from the Vice Presidents wife, Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller.