Spice fruit bars christmas cookies
90 Bars
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | pounds | Sugar |
| 6½ | ounce | Butter |
| 8 | ounces | Molasses |
| 1 | pinch | Salt |
| 1 | teaspoon | Lemon rind |
| 1 | teaspoon | Mace |
| 1½ | teaspoon | Cinnamon |
| ½ | ounce | Baking soda dissolved in 1/3 c. water |
| 4 | Eggs | |
| Mix 6 cups bread flour into above mixture | ||
| 3 | ounces | Sliced almonds |
| 3 | ounces | Currants |
| 2 | ounces | Candied lemon peel |
| 2 | ounces | Candied orange peel |
Directions
CREAM TOGETHER
ADD TO MIXTURE
ADD THE FOLLOWING
Allow mixtures to rest overnight in refrigerator. Using a number 8 tube, pipe 6 strips of mixture on parchment paper, 4" apart. Bake at 350 degrees until firm. Allow to cool. Brush on chocolate and decorate with nonpareil.
Yield: 6 strips, each cut into 15 pieces.
Hi everyone I was playing on the computer instead of wrapping presents and stumbled on to the white house web site ( I'm a freak but it's kinda cool ). I saw on there a couple of recipes for the holidays and thought I would share. I have just cut and pasted from the site so I hope all is right.
Posted to recipelu-digest Volume 01 Number 397 by KAY71393<KAY71393@...> on Dec 23, 1997