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Applesauce Cookies Recipe Clipping

This recipe was clipped from a newspaper and found in a large collection of one cook’s clipping collection. Date is unknown, the recipes in this collection ranged from the 1940s through the 1980s. Recipe is typed below along with a scanned copy.

Applesauce Cookies

3/4 cup soft shortening
1 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1/2 cup applesauce
2 1/4 cups flour
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
3/4 tsp. cinnamon

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Mix shortening, sugar and egg thoroughly. Stir in applesauce. Sift flour. Blend dry ingredients and stir into shortening mixture. Drop by teaspoonsful on greased baking sheet and bake 10 to 12 minutes. Makes four dozen cookies.

–From the kitchen of Anna M. Lenenberger
Fort Wayne