Show N Eq f r aaa s err y a 6 I- I FRUIT CAKE COOKIES These tempting little fruit cake cookies are a happy compromise for someone who cant can't decide between cookies and fruit cake during the holidays They combine the goal fruity spiciness of fruit cake and the easy nibble to-nibble-on shape of cookies Pack some in pretty jars for gifts and save some for the lucky guests who drop in at your house on Christmas Novel Fruit Cake Cookies Are Holiday Surprise For Family and Friends Fruit Cake cookies will make a wonderful holiday surprise either for the family or for someone on your gift list Their spicy fragrance while baking hints of fruit cake so the sur prise will come when cookies emer emerge e from the oven You Vou can use the handy mix of fruit that comes in jars for these although you will want to chop it a little finer because of the smaller size of the cookies ThEre are also chopped pecans and raisins included in the rec ipe so you have a really fine fruit cake type mixture The brown sugar that is used makes the cookies similar to the dark variety of fruit ruit cake Ire rhe cookies are crunchier than regular fruit ruit cake and anel of course are ready read to t o serve on a moments moment's notice since no slicing is 1 s 's reo re- re required They pack nicEly too ton so would make a dElightful rift for that hard to please someone on your list Fruit Cake Cookk s 2 jars glace fruit mix 8 oz Each cup butter 1 cups brown sugar 3 eggs separated vs cup evaporated milk teaspoons lemon juice 2 cups CUIS sifted flour 6 tEa teaspoon Iud soda a A tEH teaspoon suit salt 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon cloves 1 teaspoon allspice Few grains of nutmeg 1 cups raisins 2 cups chopped pEcans Ya lb Cut glace fruit ver very fine Cream butter well then add sugar gradually end and continue creaming until light and fluffy Beat in egg yolks Stir lemon juice into evaporated milk then add slowly to egg mixture Re serve R cup of the flour Sift remaining flour with soda salt and spices Stir all at once into egg mixture Mix the reservEd Tin cup flour lour with the glace fruit raisins and pecans P to coat well Add to egg mixture stirring to blend thoroughly Fold in egg whites which have been beaten stiff but not dry Drop by tea spoonfuls onto an aluminum foil oil coverEd baking haking she sheet t Bake in preheated slow oven F until lightly browned about 20 to 25 minutes Remove immedi immedi- immediately from baking sheet to racks to cool Males Makes about 9 dozen cookies |