The Story of Crisco

The Story of Crisco, 1913 — how Procter & Gamble taught America a new fat, with 250 recipes and a year of dinners to seal it.

HomePastries › Fruit Cookies

Fruit Cookies

1 cupful chopped raisins 1 cupful chopped English walnut meats 3 eggs 1 teaspoonful powdered cinnamon 1½ teaspoonful powdered allspice 1 teaspoonful powdered ginger 1½ teaspoonfuls baking soda 2 tablespoonfuls sour milk Flour Cream Crisco and sugar together, add salt, eggs well beaten, soda mixed with milk, spices, raisins, nuts, and enough flour to make stiff dough. About 5 cupfuls flour will be sufficient. Roll out, cut with cooky cutter, lay on Criscoed tins and bake in moderate oven from ten to twelve minutes. Sufficient for sixty cookies. 1 cupful sugar 1½ cupful Crisco 2 cupfuls flour

← Fried Cakes with Apple SauceFruit Drop Cakes →