Chocolate Cookies

Directions

1. 1
   Cream Crisco and sugar.
2. 2
   Add cocoa, milk, allspice, cloves, cinnamon, baking powder, vanilla and nuts.
3. 3
   Blend flour, stirring well.
4. 4
   When it starts to get hard to stir with spoon, wash hands thoroughly.
5. 5
   Do not over flour.
6. 6
   Wash hands; get a piece of dough and roll in hand.
7. 7
   If it doesn't stick to hand, it is ready.
8. 8
   If sticky, add more flour.
9. 9
   Spoon dough on an ungreased cookie sheet and roll in hand about 1-inch round, then flatten on sheet.
10. 10
    Bake at 350° for 10 to 12 minutes.
11. 11
    Ice when cool.