Carrot cookies
Ingredients:
| ½ cup | Shortening |
| 1 cup | Brown sugar |
| ½ cup | Granulated sugar |
| 1 | Egg |
| 1 cup | Cooked carrots, mashed |
| 2 cups | Flour |
| ½ tsp | Salt |
| 1 ½ tsp | Baking soda |
| ¾ cup | Raisins |
| 1 tsp | Vanilla |
Instructions:
- Bring shortening and sugar into cream.
- Add the vanilla and cooled mashed carrots.
- Sift flour, measure and add salt and baking soda.
- Sift again, add the dry ingredients, sift and beat until becomes a soft dough.
- Chop the raisins and stir into batter.
- Drop in teaspoons of mixture on the well greased sheet or oiled baking pan.
- Allow 2-3 inches of space between the patties.
- Cook in oven at 350°F, about fifteen minutes.
Makes about 3 dozen cookies and a half.
