Pumpkin Cookies

1 Cup Brown Sugar
1 1/4 Cup shortening
1 Egg
1 Cup Pumpkin
2 Cups Flour
1 Teaspoon Cinnamon
1/2 Teaspoon Salt
1 Teaspoon Baking Powder
1 Teaspoon Baking Soda

FROSTING:
1 Teaspoon Butter
1 Tablespoon Milk
1/4 Cup Pumpkin
Powdered Sugar

Mix sugar,shortening and eggs. Add pumpkin.Mix well. Sift dry ingredients and add to mixture; mix well.Drop on cookie sheet. Bake at 350 about 10 to 12 minutes. When slightly cooled, frost.

FROSTING: Cream butter; add milk and pumpkin.Mix, then add powdered sugartill right consistency.

This recipe came from a cookbook I use all the time called The Basics and More Cookbook. I got this book when my Daddy and I took my youngest daughter to Lancaster on vacation when she was about seven years old; she turns 21 on December 2nd.

yummy!!! Thanks for sharing!! We will be trying this.

Hope you enjoy them. I just finished baking six and a half dozen peanut butter cookies out of that same book. This another good recipe. That book would be well worth the money if you can find it on Amazon or Barnes and Noble. I bought it years ago and also bought one for my daughter Valerie and daughter-in-law Nina. Val lost hers when she lost her house in the flood so I may try and find her one for this Christmas.

Their brownie recipe is good too. (I have the same book-also got it in Lancaster County years ago.)

I just tried that one about a month ago when we went to dinner at my son's when he came back from Special Forces training in Florida. I had never made it before because I had always used the one out of the Better Homes and Garden's Cookbood but I out of habit reached for the Lancaster one. They came out great I guess because by the time we got thro ugh the hour ride to my son's house they were gone except for about six.