This week I will post Christmas recipes from my family. Enjoy!
This recipe comes from the adoptive mother of my birth father. It’s a cookie I think of when I think of Christmas!
Edna Earl Collings’ Gumdrop Cookies
Ingredients:
30 fruit sliced (jelly) candy, chopped (not spiced drops)
1 cup chopped pecans
2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 cup Crisco (butter flavored)
1 1/2 cup brown sugar (dark is best)
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 eggs
Directions:
Place flour, baking soda and salt in mixer and mix on slow. Add brown sugar and continue mixing. Add Crisco, vanilla extract and then eggs.
With wood spoon mix in candies and pecans.
Drop a tablespoon an inch apart on silicon or greased cookie sheet and bake at 375 for about 14 minutes, or until edges start to brown.
They are so yummy. I can’t even explain how much I love them!
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