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Pumpkin Cookies
Ingredients:
½ cup shortening or butter
1 ¼ cups firmly packed brown sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 ½ cups cooked and mashed or canned pumpkin
2 ½ cups sifted plain flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 cup raisins
1 cup chopped pecans, walnuts, or other nuts
Directions:
In a large mixing bowl, cream together shortening and brown sugar. Add eggs, and beat thoroughly. Mix in vanilla extract and pumpkin.
In separate bowl, sift together dry ingredients. A little at a time, blend into creamed mixture. Stir in raisins and chopped nuts.
Drop dough by heaping teaspoonfuls 2 inches apart on a greased baking sheet. Bake in a preheated 375 degree oven for about 15 minutes until lightly browned. Remove cookies and cool on racks. This recipe makes about 5 dozen spicy pumpkin cookies that you and your little ones will love making and eating. I hope you enjoyed our vintage 1959 cookie recipe. What holiday activities do you like?
Cheers & Happy Reading!
Flossie Benton Rogers, Conjuring the Magic with Paranormal Romance
Good Grief, this sounds delicious! Thanks for sharing. (and here I thought snickerdoodles were your favorite 🙂 )
Snickerdoodles will always be my favorite;) Thanks for stopping by and commenting, Linda!
Yum! I love pumpkin-flavored anything. The cookies sound delicious!
Pumpkins and all manner of autumn squash and gourds are so interesting and some so tasty!
Yummy! Love the flavor of pumpkin. These sound delicious!
They are good, especially this time of year:) Thanks for stopping by and commenting!
I will have to give these cookies a try. Perhaps I might make a batch to take over to the my niece’s little ones. Thanks for sharing, Flossie.
Have fun with making the cookies, Daisy!
I enjoy trying new recipes. This one is just in time for the holidays.
Oh good, Loretta! Thanks for stopping by.
these sound good ! I love pumpkin!
I do too, Cathy. Thanks for commenting.