Danish Apple Cookies

Ingredients

1 cup oatmeal

2 cups flour

1 tsp. soda

1/2 tsp. salt

1 tsp. cinnamon

1 tsp. nutmeg

3/4 cup shortening

1 cup brown sugar

2 eggs

3/4 cup applesauce

1 cup walnuts

Directions

Mix oatmeal, flour, soda, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg together. Beat shortening, brown sugar, eggs, and applesauce together until light and fluffy. Add dry ingredients. Stir in walnuts. Drop by teaspoons onto a greased cookie sheet. Bake at 375 for 12 minutes.

Notes

I remember making these along with all the other cookies we used to eat. Seems like the cookie jar was hard to keep full.