Mystery ingredient in cookies with cream tartar The attached picture is of a cookie recipe from my grandmother who passed a year ago. I would like to make the cookies, especially since they share my daughter's name, but there is one ingredient that I can't decode. It appears that the recipe calls for:

Nora's Cookies:


2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1 cup ????
1/2 cup milk
2 tsp cream of tartar
1 tsp soda
salt
vanilla and lemon extract
flour to roll out


What might the 3rd ingredient be?
It's "spry"... which is actually what it looks like. 

Spry was apparently a brand name shortening.

This related question "Is there anything special about &quot;homogenized&quot; shortening?" recommends simply using any type of vegetable shortening, like Crisco.