Old Fashioned Drop Cookies

These are moist drop cookies that you can add any of your favorite ingredients to. Chocolate, butterscotch, or peanut butter chips, nuts, candied fruit, or chopped candy bars all taste delicious. You are only limited by your imagination. Be creative and enjoy.

• Ready In: 22 mins
• Serves: 10
• Yields: 5 dozen

Ingredients

• 1 1⁄2 cups sugar
• 3  cups flour
• 1⁄2 cup shortening
• 2  teaspoons baking powder
• 1  teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 1  egg
• 1  cup milk
• 1  teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1  cup chocolate chips or 1  cup  nuts, etc or 1  cup  candy bars, chopped etc or 1  cup raisins, etc

Directions

1. Cream together sugar, shortening, eggs and vanilla. Add all dry ingredients and mix thoroughly. At this point stir in your favorite candy, chocolate chips, nuts, candied fruit, raisins or anything you would like to use.
2. Drop by teaspoonfuls on greased cookie sheet and bake at 375 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes.