Drop Cookies
Christmas Cookies

• 1/2 cup shortening
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 3 (1 ounce) squares unsweetened chocolate, melted
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup milk
• 3/4 cup chopped black walnuts
• Walnut halves

Cream shortening; add sugar, beating well. Add eggs and melted chocolate, beating well. Stir in vanilla.

Combine flour, baking powder, and salt in a medium mixing bowl. Add to creamed mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Stir in chopped black walnuts.

Drop dough by teaspoonfuls 2 inches apart onto greased cookie sheets. Gently press a walnut half in center of each cookie.

Bake at 350° for 10 to 12 minutes. Cool on wire racks.

Yield: 4 dozen

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