Caramel Cookies

 2 cups brown sugar
 1 cup shortening
 2 eggs, beaten
 3 1/2 cups flour
 3 teaspoons baking powder
 1 cup of strong coffee
 1 t soda, dissolved in coffee


Mix sugar, shortening, and eggs well. Mix the remaining ingredients. Alternating the dry ingredients and wet ingredients. Drop by spoonful on greased cookie sheet bake 350° for 5-10 minutes. They will be a soft cookie.

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We didn't have a lot of "fancy" ingredients growing up. We ate simple food from mom's garden. For desert mom made pies from her rhubarb patch or blackberries she picked from the roadside. We didn't have cookies until Pat and I started taking home economics. Our only recipes were ones we brought home from class or from a cookbook Grandma "Bessie" Dawson gave mom and Aunt Audrey. It was a Mother's of the Band cookbook with a green cover.

One of my favorite recipes from the cookbook was the Carmel Cookies. We always had flour and mom made coffee every morning. After I left home I asked mom for the recipe and she had thrown away the cookbook. I guess since no one was home to bake she didn't need it anymore. Luckily I was able to go next door and find the recipe in Audrey's copy. - Donna Dawson Kessler