Title: Billy goats
 Categories: Cookies
      Yield: 50 Servings
 
    1/2 c  Vegetable shortening
      1 c  Sugar
      2 lg Eggs
      2 ts Vanilla extract
    1/4 c  Sour cream
      2 c  Flour
      2 ts Baking powder
    1/2 ts Baking soda
    1/2 ts Salt
      2 ts Cinnamon
      1 ts Ground cloves
      1 ts Ground allspice
      2 c  Walnuts; chopped
      2 c  Dates; finely chopped
 
  Preheat oven to 375 degrees, and grease some cookie sheets. Cream the
  shortening and sugar together. Add the eggs and vanilla, and beat
  until smooth and blended, then beat in the sour cream. Combine the
  flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, cloves and
  allspice, then stir and toss them together. Add to the first mixture,
  and beat until completely mixed. Add the nuts and dates, and mix
  well. Drop heaping teaspoonsful of the dough about 2" apart on the
  prepared cookie sheets. Bake for about 12 minutes, until the cookies
  are delicately browned around the edges. Transfer to racks to cool
  completely.
  
  Recipe