Recipe - Jumbo Raisin Cookies

2 cups rainsins 1 tsp baking powder 1 cup water 1 tsp
baking soda 1 cup shortning 2 tsp salt 2 cups white sugar One half tsp cinnamon
3 eggs
One half tsp nutmeg 1 tsp vanilla One fourth tsp allspice 4
cups flour 1 cup chopped nuts (optional)

1. Cover raisins with water and boil 15 minutes.
2. Cool.
3. Cream together shortning and sugar. Add eggs and beat well. Add vanilla
and boiled raisins with One fourth cup more water. Add dry ingredients to the
batter a little at a time.
4. Drop on a greased cookie sheet and bake at 375 oven for 1012 min.

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