Hi, my name is Sue and I'm from Northeast Ohio and today I want to show you a recipe that my mother used to make for us when we were kids. Around Halloween and Thanksgiving and at Thanksgiving time instead of having pumpkin pie like all the adults he would make pumpkin cookies with the kids.
First, what you want to do is preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Okay, then we’re going to mix in our dry ingredients first. It calls for two cups of flour, one teaspoon of baking soda and one teaspoon of baking powder, one teaspoon of cinnamon and you'll mix all those together first separately. You can put through a sifter if you want too but it doesn’t really matter, you know as long as you mix it all up really good and also we need a quarter teaspoon of salt.
Okay, now we’re going to measure together our wet ingredients. It calls from one cup of pumpkin, half a cup of vegetable shortening and you got to beat in the pumpkin and the shortening into the pumpkin. I always use a fork so you can like really good at mix in there, incorporate the two together. You add one cup of sugar and then we put in two eggs, beaten. Pour that into there and incorporate them all together. Now you got you’re your shortening, your sugar, pumpkin and eggs.
And next we’ll add a tablespoon of orange rind then we add in our orange rind. And my mother didn’t have in her recipe but I like to add a little bit of extra all spice just like when you are making pumpkin pie or pumpkin pie spice. It’s kind of like my extra additive that I added to it, makes it a little spicier and just mix those all in together.
Okay, then next we’re going to add in all our dry ingredients our flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt that we incorporated together and just add in little by little. I usually do about half at a time. Fold that together. You’ve mix it until it makes a perfect cookie dough batter. Okay, now we’re going to add the nuts, I choose pecans today. You can use you're favorite nut if you like walnuts or whatever and I'm going to chop it up like the old fashion way because you don’t want to put into the processor because it comes out a little too powdery. You want to have it like in chunks, so just put it in the cloth and pound it really good.
Okay, that’s about a half of cup. Now, we’re going to add that to our flour mixture, our cookie dough mixture and fold those in. Now those were all mix in really good the nuts and the recipe also calls for either chocolate chips or raisins. You can use either the gold raisins or the regular raisins, this depends on your preference.
My family really loves chocolate, we're chocoholics. My kids love chocolates so today I'm going to use chocolate chips and it calls for half a cup and then incorporate that into your cookie dough. Now that our cookie dough is all made we get our teaspoon and we’re going to drop it by heaping teaspoons onto a cookie sheet and then we’re going to bake them, pop it into oven at 350 degrees.
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