Recipe - Billy Goats

One half cup Vegetable shortening
1 cup Sugar
2 lg Eggs
2 teaspoon Vanilla extract
One fourth cup Sour cream
2 cup Flour
2 teaspoon Baking powder
One half teaspoon Baking soda
One half teaspoon Salt
2 teaspoon Cinnamon
1 teaspoon Ground cloves
1 teaspoon Ground allspice
2 cup Walnuts; chopped
2 cup Dates; finely chopped

Preheat oven to 375 degrees, and grease some cookie sheets. Cream the
shortening and sugar together. Add the eggs and vanilla, and beat until
smooth and blended, then beat in the sour cream. Combine the flour, baking
powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, cloves and allspice, then stir and
toss them together. Add to the first mixture, and beat until completely
mixed. Add the nuts and dates, and mix well. Drop heaping teaspoonsful of
the dough about 2" apart on the prepared cookie sheets. Bake for about 12
minutes, until the cookies are delicately browned around the edges.
Transfer to racks to cool completely.

Recipe by: Helen Jolly (MDFD30E)

Posted to recipeludigest Volume 01 Number 324 by PookyPook@aol.com on Nov
28, 1997