Recipes ala Mode

Original date February 2007
From: Patti Meuter

1 c. shortening
1 c. sugar
1 c. pumpkin
1 egg
2 c. flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 c. chocolate chips

Cream sugar, shortening, pumpkin and egg. Mix everything else into mixture. Drop by teaspoonfuls on cookie sheet. Bake at 350F for 10 minutes. Let cool.

3 tbsp. butter
1/4 c. milk
1/2 c. brown sugar
1 c. powdered sugar
3/4 tsp. vanilla

Combine butter, milk and brown sugar in a saucepan and boil slowly for 2 minutes stirring constanly. Remove from stove and let cool. Stir in powdered sugar and vanilla. Ice the cookies and eat them up!