Farmer's Pumpkin Drop Cookies with Raisins (1973)

• 1/3 cup shortening
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup canned pumpkin
• 2 eggs
• 1 tspn lemon juice  
• 1 tspn vanilla
• 2 1/4 cups unsifted flour
• 2 tspns baking powder
• 1 tspn ground cinnamon
• 1 tspn ground allspice
• 1/2 tspn salt
• 1/4 tspn ground ginger
•  1 cup raisins
• 1/2 cup flaked coconut
• 1/2 cup chopped walnuts     

Cream together shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in pumpkin, eggs, lemon juice, and vanilla, and blend well.

Sift together flour, baking powder, cinnamon, allspice, salt, and ginger. Gradually stir into creamed mixture. Stir in raisins, coconut, and walnuts. Drop by heaping teaspoonfuls 2 inches apart on greased baking sheet. 

Bake in moderate oven (350 degrees) 10 to 12 minutes. Remove from pan. Cook on racks. Makes about 4 dozen.

More "Lost" Pumpkin Recipes

Easy Pumpkin Cupcakes (1984)

Honey-Walnut Pumpkin Pie (1963)

(Origin - "Family Favorites from Country Kitchens" by the Farm, edited by Elise W. Manning, Farm Journal Food Editor, 1973.)