Fruit Cake Cookies

1 c Brown sugar

1/4 c Butter

2 Eggs

1 1/2 ts Baking soda dissolved in

1 1/2 ts Milk

1 1/2 c Flour

1/4 ts Ground cloves

1/2 ts Cinnamon

1/2 ts Nutmeg

1/2 lb Candied cherries; chopped

1/2 lb Candied pineapple; chopped

1 lb White raisins

1/2 c Apple juice

1 lb Pecans; chopped

Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs and beat well. Add dissolved baking soda. Sift together flour, cloves, nutmeg and cinnamon. Add to the mixed fruit, mixing well. Blend the fruit-flour mixture into the first mixture. Add apple juice slowly, mixing well. Fold in pecans. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto a greased baking sheet. You may have to shape them slightly. Bake at 300~F for 20 minutes.

Margaret Garland DFYX18A Source: Prize Winning Recipes from the State Fair of Texas, 1976.
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