Grandma's Chipless Chippers

2 cups butter or shortening or half butter and half shortening

4 cups sugar

4 eggs

8 cups flour

1 & 1/2 teaspoons cloves

3 teaspoons cinnamon

1 teaspoon allspice

4 cups applesauce or pumpkin

2 teaspoons salt

2 teaspoons soda

4 teaspoons baking powder

4 cups chocolate chips

Mix butter and sugar until well blended. Add eggs, beating well after each. Mix dry ingredients together and alternately add dry ingredients and applesauce to the egg mixture. Finally add in the chocolate chips. Drop by spoonful onto a lightly greased cookie sheet. Bake at 375 degrees for 12 minutes until set in center of cookies. Cool on rack. These will freeze well. Tom Adams and Evan Bybee made fun of these cookies when Grandma Bybee made them because she would only put in 1 cup of chocolate chips for the 8 cups of flour. Consequently, when eating them, you were lucky if you ever tasted a chocolate chip. So they named them Chipless Chippers.

Mix butter and eggs