Holiday Fruit Cookies

Ingredients

• 1 C. Soft Shortening
• 2 C. Brown Sugar
• 2 Eggs
• 1 tsp. Soda
• 1 eeP- Salt
• 2 C. Candied Cherries (cut in half)
• 4 C. Sour Milk or Buttermilk
• 35 C. Sifted Flour
• 2 C. Chopped Dates
• 13 Cc. broken Pecans

Method

1. 1

   Mix shortening, brown sugar and eggs together thoroughly.

2. 2

   Stir in sour milk or buttermilk.

3. 3

   Sift flour, soda and salt together and stir into mixture.

4. 4

   Add broken pecans, cherries (cut in half) and chopped dates.

5. 5

   Chill at least 1 hour.

6. 6

   Drop rounded teaspoonfuls about 2" apart on greased baking sheet.

7. 7

   Place a pecan half on each cookie.

8. 8

   Bake about 8 to 10 minutes (until almost no imprint remains when touched lightly with finger) at 400°.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Our favorite recipes (Wilshire Ward LDS, 1957) (1957) by Maude Frances Smeath Weight, page 22. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

HOLIDAY FRUIT COOKIES 1 C. Soft Shortening 1 tsp. Soda 2 C. Brown Sugar 1 eeP- Salt 2 Eggs 13 Cc. broken Pecans 4 C. Sour Milk or 2 C. Candied Cherries (cut Buttermilk in half) 35 C. Sifted Flour 2 C. Chopped Dates Method: Mix shortening, brown sugar and eggs together thoroughly. Stir in sour milk or buttermilk.

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