Courtesy of Mary Eshbaugh Hayes

l cup sugar
½ cup shortening
2 eggs
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon cloves
½ teaspoon nutmeg
½ teaspoon cinnamon
l cup applesauce
1 12-ounce package chocolate chips

Cream sugar and shortening, add eggs and mix well. Sift together dry ingredients and add to egg mixture along with applesauce. Add chocolate chips. Drop onto a greased cookie sheet by tablespoonfuls. Bake at 400° for 15 minutes or until golden brown. Yields 3½ dozen. (Note: I always doubled this recipe since I had 5 kids and their friends. I couldn’t keep them in the house ... they were eaten as fast as I baked them. The texture is soft, not hard.)