Bettie's Fruitcake Cookies

Ingredients

55 gr butter
1/2 stick
120 ml honey
2 eggs
60 gr dark rum
7 gr baking soda
30 ml milk
190 gr sifted all-purpose flour
1 gr allspice
1 gr nutmeg
350 gr walnuts
140 gr candied cherries
170 gr golden raisins
75 gr candied orange peel
130 gr candied pineapple

Instructions

Recipe by: St. Louis Post-Dispatch 0. 381944444444.45 In a mixing bowl, beat butter until light; continue beating while adding honey in a fine stream. Beat in eggs and rum. Dissolve baking soda in milk; add to honey mixture. Sift together flour, cloves, allspice and nutmeg. Stir half of the flour mixture into honey mixture. Toss nuts, cherries, raisins, orange peel and pineapple with remaining flour; fold into dough. Refrigerate for 30 minutes. Preheat oven to 250 degrees. Drop dough by rounded teaspoons onto greased cookie sheets. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until lightly brown. ----