Merry Christmas Cookies

• Ready In: 1 hr 20 mins
• Yields: 100 cookies

Ingredients

• 1  cup margarine
• 1  cup brown sugar
• 3  eggs, well beaten
• 3  cups plain flour
• 1  teaspoon cinnamon
• 1  teaspoon baking soda
• 7  cups pecans
• 1⁄2 cup milk
• 3⁄4 lb white seedless raisin
• 6  slices  crystallized pineapple (2 red, 2 green 2, yellow)
• 2  cups dates, chopped
• 2  cups cherries (1 red, 1 green)

Directions

1. Cream butter and sugar.
2. Add eggs, flour, soda and cinnamon.
3. Add milk then fruit mixture and nuts.
4. Drop tea- spoonful on greased cookie sheet. Bake 5 minutes at 300 degrees.
5. Makes more than a hundred.