Title: Christmas Jewels
Categories: Cookie Holiday
Yield: 72 Cookies

BETTY CROCKER'S COOKY BOOK
1/3	c	Shortening
1/4	c	Sugar
1/2	c	Molasses
1		Eggs
1 1/2	c	Flour
1/2	ts	Baking soda
1/4	ts	Salt
1	ts	Cinnamon, ground
1	ts	Mace, ground
1	ts	Nutmeg, grated
1/4	ts	Ginger, ground
1/4	ts	Allspice, ground
2 1/2	c	Candied fruit, mixed
2	c	Nuts, chopped; coarsely

Preheat oven to 325 F (slow moderate). Mix shortening, sugar, molasses, and egg. Stir dry ingredients together, blend into shortening mixture. Stir in fruit and nuts. Drop dough by teaspoonsful about 1" apart on lightly greased baking sheet. Bake 12-15 minutes.

If you use self-rising flour, omit soda and salt.

Nutritional information per serving: xx calories, xx gm protein, xx mg cholesterol, xx gm carbohydrate, xx mg sodium, x.x gm fiber, xx gm fat ( x gm sat, x gm mono, x gm poly), x.x mg iron, xx mg calcium, x% of calories from fat.

Tyops by Sylvia Steiger, SylviaRN (at) CompuServe (dot) com

From: Sylvia Steiger Date: 11-29-97 (09:40) The Pine Tree Bbs (222) Cooking(F)

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