Title: Spice Fruit Bars Christmas Cookies
Categories: None
Yield: 90 Bars

-------------------------------CREAM TOGETHER-------------------------------
1 lb Sugar
6 1/2 oz Butter
8 oz Molasses
1 pn Salt
1 ts Lemon rind
1 ts Mace
1 1/2 ts Cinnamon

-------------------------------ADD TO MIXTURE-------------------------------
1/2 oz Baking soda dissolved in 1/3
-c. water
4 Eggs
Mix 6 cups bread flour into
-above mixture

-----------------------------ADD THE FOLLOWING-----------------------------
3 oz Sliced almonds
3 oz Currants
2 oz Candied lemon peel
2 oz Candied orange peel

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
http://www.whitehouse.gov). 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
on Dec 23, 1997