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Mincemeat Cookies

Margaret Evans for years helped make the authentic mincemeat sold every year at the Shiloh Church Fair. Now 93 years old, she still enjoys baking and last month picked up three quarts of that mincemeat so she can make these cookies to give away. It’s a moist cookie, not overly sweet, and spices from the mincemeat provide the tingle on the tongue.

“One must use real mincemeat in this recipe for best results,” she says. (Real mincemeat includes beef, suet and fruit such as apples and currants or raisins — and brandy.)

Makes 72 cookies
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 cup butter, softened
3 eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
18 ounces mincemeat
1/2 cup chopped walnuts

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream sugar and butter until light. Add eggs and beat well. Stir together flour, soda and salt; stir into creamed mixture. Stir in mincemeat and nuts. Drop by rounded teaspoons onto greased cookie sheet. Bake about 15 minutes. Let stand 1 minute and remove from cookie sheet.