2 cups carrots — cooked
1/2 cup shortening
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla
4 cups flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
***Icing*** 1 orange
1 1/2 tablespoons margarine
powdered sugar
Mash carrots; cream well with shortening, sugar and vanilla Add flour, baking p owder and salt. Mix well and drop by teaspoonfuls onto greased cookie sheet. Ba ke 12 minutes at 350 degrees.
Icing:
Grate peel of orange; juice orange to get 1/2 cup juice. Heat orange peel and j uice and add margarine. Take off stove before it boils and beat in powdered sug ar until like heavy cream. Frost cool cookies immediately.
Rosa Lee McCracken Graham, Texas