With brown sugar.
From the box of A.D. from Lutz, Florida, by way of Pennsylvania in the 1940s, and originating in Ohio in the 1920s.
Caramel or Butterscotch Cookies
4 cups dark brown sugar
1 cup melted Crisco
7 cups pastry flour
4 beaten eggs
1 tsp. salt
3 tsp. baking powder
Cream Crisco with sugar, add eggs, mix thoroughly. Add dry ingredients sifted twice. Shape into roll about 3 inches in diameter. Slice and bake in hot oven.
Makes about 124 cookies.