Fruit Cake Cookies - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 c. butter
1 c. brown sugar
1 tsp. soda
3 tsp. buttermilk
4 egg yolks
2 c. flour
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. nutmeg
6 c. pecans, chopped
1/2 lb. candied pineapple
1/2 lb. dates
1 lb. candied cherries (half red and green)
1 c. flour for fruit

Preparation

Cream butter and sugar; add egg yolks.
Dissolve soda
in buttermilk; add with flour and spices to cream mixture.
Mix 1 cup flour with fruit.
Add to batter.
Beat egg whites stiff and add to mixture.
Drop by spoonfuls on greased baking sheet and bake at 300\u00b0 for 25 minutes.