1 cup butter, soft
3 cup brown sugar
4 eggs
4 tbsp milk
3 tsp baking powder
6 cup flour
2 cup seedless raisins
2 cup currants
1 tsp nutmeg
1 cup nutmeats, chopped
1 tsp cinnamon
1 grated orange rind
A Recipe for
Christmas Hermits
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| Mark Twain |
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Vanity is the food of fools. |
| Anonymous |
Proust had his madeleines; I am devastated by the scent of yeast bread rising. |
| Bert Greene |
Always eat grapes downward - that is eat the best grapes first; in this way there will be none better left on the bunch, and each grape will seem good down to the last. If you eat the other way, you will not have a good grape in the lot. |
| Samuel Butler |
Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm. |
| Ambrose Bierce |
The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Never eat more than you can lift. |
| Miss Piggy |
Cream butter and sugar. Add milk and eggs. Sift powder with 3 cups
flour, add to creamed mix, Mix well. Add raisins, currants, nutmeats
and orange rind. Mix well. Sift spices with remaining flour. Add to
creamed mix and blend well. Drop by rounded teaspoonsful 1 to 1-1/2
inches apart onto greased cookie sheet. Bake in 375 degree F. oven
for 20 minutes, or until light brown. Cool on wire rack. Store in
airtight container. Makes about 10 dozen cookies.
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Serves: 10
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