Aunt Sally’s Drop Cookies

Ingredients

• 1 cup shortening (half oleo)
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1½ cup buttermilk (or sour milk)
• 2 teaspoon vanilla
• 3½ cups flour
• 1 teaspoon soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup cocoa
• 1 cup chopped nuts

Directions

1. Cream:
2. Add:
3. mix all ingredients as in line;
4. Chill 1 hour or more. Bake at 400 degree oven for 8 to 10 minutes.
5. Frost with chocolate icing.
6. Cream applies to shortening, sugar, eggs, buttermilk or sour milk, and vanilla. Add applies to flour, soda, salt, cocoa, and chopped nuts. Then mix in the listed order, chill, bake, and frost.

Timing

• Chill 1 hour or more.
• 8 to 10 minutes

Temperature

• 400 degree oven

Equipment

• mixing bowl and utensil, refrigerator, baking sheet, oven, and frosting utensil

Notes

• The source supplies no instruction for dropping or otherwise shaping the dough before baking, and no chocolate icing formula.