Applesauce Chocolate Chip Cookies

My Grandpa Carl and Grandma Ruth Johnson

2 cups sugar
1 cup shortening
4 eggs

4 cups flour - sifted (560 g)
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground cloves
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon salt

2 teaspoons baking soda
2 cups applesauce

1 package chocolate chips (12 ounces)

Cream sugar and shortening. Add eggs, one at a time, until well blended.  In a separate bowl, combine flour, spices, and salt, stirring well. Add to creamed mixture. Combine soda and applesauce. Add to mixture. Stir in chocolate chips. Bake 12 minutes in a 350 degree oven.

Makes about 6 dozen. You may 1/2 the recipe if desired. (See measurements below.)

Enjoy! Grandma Ruth

(Grandma would wash the styrofoam meat trays and use them as a tray to freeze her cookies--first wrapped in plastic wrap, then foil. I usually ate her cookies frozen. Somehow they are still soft enough to bite into.)

Notice it was Apple Sauce, two words back then. But later it became one word. :)

Here are the ingredient measurements for half a batch:

1 cups sugar
1/2 cup shortening
2 eggs

2 cups flour - sifted
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/8 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoons baking soda
1 cups applesauce

1/2 package chocolate chips (6 oz.)