I forgot how much trouble these are to make. Cutting up all that sticky fruit (cutting up the dates was the worst.) Making a real fruitcake would have been a lot easier. But then after I was done, DD grabbed a couple of cookies and told me how much better they are than fruitcake. (They are really good, but I think I like fruit *cake* better.) I got this recipe from my MIL last year:
Jo's Fruitcake Cookies
1 stick margarine 1-2 cup 1 3-4 Cup sugar 3 cups flour 1 tsp. cinnamon 1 tsp. nutmeg 1-2 tsp soda 3 eggs 1 tsp. sherry flavoring 1 tsp. almond flavoring 1 tsp. vanilla flavoring 1-4 to 1-2 cup water 1 lb. dates, chopped 1 lb candies cherries, chopped 1 lb. candied pineapple, chopped 1 lb. shelled pecans, chopped
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Cream sugar and margarine. Sift and measure flour. Sift again with dry ingredients. Add eggs and flavoring to creamed mixture. Add dry ingredients alternately with water. Mix in fruits and nuts. Drop by teaspoonful on a slightly greased cookie sheet. Bake 15-20 minutes at 325 degrees.
Subsbreastutions: I used 3 pounds of fruit and almost a pound of mixed walnuts and pecans. For fruit, I used about 6 ounces each: dried apricots, dates, raisins, waxy citrus peel "fruitcake mix"; a half a pound of mixed red and green glacˇ cherries; and a pound of yellow glacˇ pineapple. I didn't have sherry flavoring, so I left it out (also left out the almond extract) and I used vermouth instead the water to make up for it.
Best regards, Bob
