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Christmas Fruit Cookies Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
1 cup butter
3 eggs
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup chopped nuts
3 1/2 cups flour
1 1/2 tbsp hot water
1 cup raisins
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 cup mixed fruit peel
1/2 cup glazed cherries
Directions:
Directions:
Cream butter and sugar until very light. Add well beaten eggs. Dissolve soda in hot water and add. Sift flour and salt. Add the chopped nuts and fruit peel to this. Add to the first mixture and mix well. drop from spoon onto greased cookie sheet. Press a half cherry on top of each. Bake at 400º until a delicate brown.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
Also called "Ruthy's Hair Cookies". Apparently I always liked cooking and had to help Elaine make Christmas cookies. Leaning over the bowl my hair got caught in the beaters. Elaine panicked and ran with me the mixer&beaters stuck to my head out in the yard and got Tim's help. Tim actually popped the beaters out of the machine (Elaine didn't think of that) then they threw me in the tub to soak the beaters out of my hair. It must have worked, I don't remember getting my hair cut. Come to think of it I don't remember having those cookies until year later.

I still have mom's old mennonite cookbook and page 72 has Ruthy's Hair Cookies written on the top of the page.

 

 

 

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