In order to prepare this delectable Christmas fruit cookies the required ingredients are brown sugar, vanilla, eggs, shortening, buttermilk, flour, baking soda, allspice, nutmeg, bourbon, white raisins, cinnamon, candied cherries, candied pineapple and chopped pecans. In a medium sized bowl cream together shortening and sugar till the mixture gets properly blended. Beat the eggs and add in the mixture along with the vanilla. In a separate bowl dissolve the baking soda in the buttermilk.
Leave aside the mixture of flour and the spices. Now add to the creamed mixture the flour along with the buttermilk and bourbon. Make it a point to add this alternatively and beat the mixture well after each addition, so that the proportion remains constant. Add the fruits into the batter and drop the teaspoonful of mixture on a greased baking sheet. Leave the mixture for baking at a certain degree of temperature and serve when the Christmas fruit cookies are ready to be grabbed in. In order to collect more information on Christmas cookie tradition log on to our site 123newyear.com. |
