Applesauce Cookies

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Title: Applesauce Cookies
Categories: Cookies, Drop
Yield: 60 cookies

1/2 c Shortening, soft
1 c Brown sugar, firmly packed
1 Egg
1 1/2 c Sweetened canned applesauce
2 c Sifted all-purpose flour
1/2 ts Soda
1 ts Salt
1 ts Cinnamon
1/2 ts Allspice
1 c Quaker Oats, uncooked
-- (quick or old-fashioned)
1 c Raisins

Beat shortening and sugar together until creamy. Blend in egg and
applesauce. (Mixture may separate but it will blend evenly when dry
ingredients are added.) Sift together flour, soda, salt and spices.
Add to creamed mixture; blend well. Stir in oats and raisins.

Drop by heaping teaspoonfuls onto greased cooky sheets. Bake in
preheated moderate oven (375 F.) 12 to 15 minutes.

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Reprinted with permission from The Quaker Oats Company
Electronic format courtesy of Karen Mintzias

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