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      Title: Rocky's Pumpkin Cookies
 Categories: Cookies
      Yield: 1 Batch
 
    1/2 c  Shortening
    1/2 c  Brown sugar
    1/2 c  White sugar
      1    Eggs; up to 2
      1 c  Pumpkin
    1/2 ts Salt
      1 ts Vanilla
      2 c  Flour
      1 ts Baking powder
      1 ts Soda
      1 ts Cinnamon
           Ginger; cloves, allspice
           - (optional)
      1 c  Raisins, dates, or
           - coconut -OR-
    1/2 c  Nuts (optional)
 
  Cream shortening and sugars until fluffy. Add eggs, pumpkin, salt, and
  vanilla; mix. Sift together flour, baking powder, soda, and spices.
  Add to mixture. Add raisins, dates, coconut, or nuts as desired. Drop
  by teaspoons on greased cookie sheet. Bake at 375°F for 8 to 10
  minutes. Enjoy.
  
  I always double this recipe. The cookies only get better each day if
  they last that long!
  
  Recipe by Rocky Sullivan
  
  Recipe FROM: <https://archive.org/
  details/book-cookbook-nelson-family-recipe-book>
 
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