Mom Snyder's Raisin Nut Cookies
"This is another of my mom's cookie recipe's made every Christmas, but it's a good "anytime" cookie. If you like "spice cookie" flavor with raisins and nuts, this might be the cookie for you (But I WON'T tell mom if you add some chocolate/white chocolate chips or substitue dried cranberries for raisins...LOL)"
- Ready In:
- 25mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Yields:
-
24-36 cookies
ingredients
- 1⁄2 cup shortening
- 1⁄2 cup margarine (stick margarine not tub)
- 2 cups packed brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 3 1⁄2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1⁄2 cup sour milk (2 tsp vinegar in 1/2 cup milk)
- 1 cup broken walnut pieces
- 2 cups raisins
directions
- Preheat oven to 375°.
- Thoroughly cream shortning, margarine and sugar.
- Add eggs an beat well.
- Sift dry ingredients together.
- Add to creamed mixture, alternately with "sour milk".
- Add nuts and raisins.
- Drop by heaping teaspoons onto greased cookie sheet (or use parchment lined trays).
- Bake for 10-12 minutes.
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I'm an Eastcoast gal through and through. Happily married with one child,I work part time at a craft store though I've worked as a Dept. Mgr in a Department store for many years and in management prior: of retail fashion (mall work). Don't have a favorite cookbook (who needs cookbooks when ya got the web) but I'm a TV Foodnetwork junkie!!!!When I can find time I love to cook and craft,and I'm a gemstone junkie also (hubby worked the Fine Jewelry counter when I met him-major plus(lol)) BIGGEST pet peeve??? Poor phone manners!!! Argh-gonna have that one put on my tombstone!!!
