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 "homogenized" shortening?" recommends simply using any type of vegetable shortening, like Crisco. 