Pumpkin Cookies with Chocolate chips

Pumpkin Cookies with Chocolate chips

1 large can pumpkin
3 cups sugar (or I have been known to substitute 2 1/4 cup honey)
1 cup Crisco (I prefer to substitute butter)
3 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp ginger
6 tsp baking powder
2 eggs
5 cups flour
1 tsp salt
1 1/2 tsp soda
1 tsp vanilla
1 large bag of chocolate chips
1 1/2 cup nuts

Cream sugar and Crisco. Add eggs to pumpkin. Sift together all dry ingredients. Mix all together. Add chocolate chips and nuts. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes. Grease lightly the pans. Makes 65 cookies, dropped by tablespoon.

-- a specialty of Rose Robinson, mama to Walnutt