Fruit Snaps

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 1 cup raisins
• 1 cup shortening
• 1 tsp. each cloves
• 1 tsp. cinnamon
• 1 tsp. allspice
• 3 eggs, unbeaten
• 1/2 cup molasses
• 2 1/2 cups pastry flour
• 1 tsp. soda
• 1 tsp. salt

Method

1. 1

   Cream shortening, sugar and salt together.

2. 2

   Add spices, then the eggs, one at a time, next the raisins and molasses.

3. 3

   Last, flour sifted with soda.

4. 4

   Drop teaspoonfuls on greased baking pans.

5. 5

   Flatten with spatula.

6. 6

   Put nut meat in center of each.

7. 7

   Bake in moderate oven (350) about 10 to 15 minutes.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 33 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Delicacies (1929) by Thursday Club (San Diego, Calif.), page 49. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Fruit Snaps iy2 cups sugar 1 cup raisins 1 cup shortening 1 tsp. each cloves, cinnamon. 3 eggs, unbeaten allspice Y cup molasses 1 tsp. soda Z]/2 cups pastry flour 1 tsp. salt Cream shortening, sugar and salt together. Add spices, then the eggs, one at a time, next the raisins and molasses. Last, flour sifted with soda. Drop teaspoonfuls on greased baking pans. Flatten with spatula. Put nut meat in center of each. Bake in moderate oven (350) about 10 to 15 min- utes. This makes about 100 cookies. — Mrs. Harvey H. Hile. Assorted Cookies Yi cup butter 2 tsp. baking powder 1 cup sugar J^ tsp. nutmeg 2 eggs Ya tsp. salt 2y2 cups flour Y2 tsp. lemon extract Cream butter, add sugar, eggs well beaten, milk and lemon extract. Mix dry ingredients and add to the first mixture. Put in ice box or cool until thoroughly chilled when mixture should become quite stiff. For sand tarts, sprinkle with cin- namon and sugar before rolling out, nuts and currants can be added the same way as well as cocoanut. — Mrs. Lloyd A. Kcnncll. —118— Thursday Club Delicacies Cookies and Small Cakes Potato Donuts 1 cup sugar 1 tsp. salt 3 eggs <"1 tsp. nutmeg % cup sweet milk 3 tsp. shortening 2l/2 cups flour 1 cup warm mashed 3 tsp. baking powder potatoes Sift dry ingredients; add beaten eggs and milk also po- tatoes. Add melted shortening and enough flour to roll. Have fat for frying heated until a cube of bread becomes golden brown in 60 seconds. — Mrs. Eddie Simpson. Russian Rocks \y2 cups brown sugar meg 1 cup butter or substitute 1 tsp. cinnamon, pinch 3 eggs (beaten in whole) of salt 1 tsp. soda dissolved in a 1 cup raisins little hot water 1 cup English walnuts y tsp. allspice

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