Fruit Cookies

1 teaspoonful salt
2 cupfuls brown sugar
1 cupful Crisco
1 cupful chopped raisins
1 cupful chopped English walnut meats
3 eggs
1 teaspoonful powdered cinnamon
1/2 teaspoonful powdered allspice
1 teaspoonful powdered ginger
1-1/2 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.