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Spiced Fig Drop Cookies
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Servings: 1
Categories:
Cookies
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Desserts
Ingredients: 2/3
c
Shortening 1/2
c
Brown sugar, firmly packed 3/4
c
White sugar 2
Eggs 1/2
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Stewed California dried figs
-- drained and cut up 3
c
Sifted all-purpose flour 1
t
Baking powder 1/2
ts
Baking soda 1 1/2
ts
Allspice 1
t
Cinnamon 1/2
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Walnut meats, broken 1/2
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Raisins or currants
Directions:
Cream shortening, two sugars, eggs and the drained, cut-up stewed figs
together. Sift the flour. Measure and sift again with the other dry
ingredients. Add nuts and raisins and flour. Mix together. Drop
from teaspoon onto buttered cookie sheets. Bake in moderate oven (375
F.) for about 11 minutes or until brown and firm to touch. Cool on
wire cake racks. Store in tin box or glass jar. A stone crock will
make these cookies too moist.
Source: 48 Family Favorites with California Figs Reprinted with the
permission of The California Fig Advisory Board Electronic format
courtesy of Karen Mintzias
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