Carrot Cookies

2 cups carrots -- cooked

1/2 cup shortening

1 1/2 cups sugar

2 teaspoons vanilla

4 cups flour

4 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

***Icing*** 1 orange

1 1/2 tablespoons margarine

powdered sugar

Mash carrots; cream well with shortening, sugar and vanilla Add flour, baking p owder and salt. Mix well and drop by teaspoonfuls onto greased cookie sheet. Ba ke 12 minutes at 350 degrees.

Icing:

Grate peel of orange; juice orange to get 1/2 cup juice. Heat orange peel and j uice and add margarine. Take off stove before it boils and beat in powdered sug ar until like heavy cream. Frost cool cookies immediately.

Rosa Lee McCracken Graham, Texas