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.

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Oatmeal Cookies

1/4 cupfuls sugar 1 teaspoonful powdered cinnamon 1 cupful Crisco 1 teaspoonful powdered ginger 3 cupfuls rolled oats 2 eggs 1½ cupful sour milk 1 cupful stoned chopped dates 1 teaspoonful baking soda 2 cupfuls flour 1 teaspoonful salt Cream Crisco and sugar thoroughly together, add eggs well-beaten, rolled oats, dates, salt, spices, soda dissolved in milk, and flour. Mix and drop from spoon on Criscoed baking tins. Bake in moderate oven from ten to twelve minutes. tar.

Sufficient for forty-five cookies. 4 cupfuls flour

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