OK, where do I start…

this post?  It is a sunshiny very bright, bitter cold Monday morning.  The temp was 9 degrees F (wind chill of 0) when I got up this morning.  I need to go out after a bit and start up the car and clean the ice and snow off it.  This will be the third day in a row I have had to do this and winter hasn’t officially started yet.

My internet service was down for several hours last night and still wasn’t up when I went to bed at 10:30.  My email service was down for awhile this morning.  I am so thoroughly disgusted with Comcast.  Always something is down, usually my telephone and internet at the same time.  I will definitely check into the new service when my contract is up in April.

I have been busy this morning making cherry date cookies, my daughter’s favorite kind.

Brown Sugar Fruit Drops

05 Jul 2007

by Beth Marie in Cookies

• 1 cup margarine or butter

• 2 cups brown sugar (packed)

• 2 eggs

• 1/2 cup buttermilk

• 3 & 1/2 cups flour

• 1 teaspoon soda

• 1 teaspoon salt

• 1 & 1/2 cups broken pecans

• 2 cups candied cherries, cut into halves

• 2 cups cut up dates

  Use mixer to thoroughly mix margarine, sugar, and eggs.  Mix the flour, soda and salt together.  Add to first mixture alternately with the buttermilk.  Fold in the cherries, dates and pecans.

  Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Use baking sheet that you have sprayed with cooking spray.  Drop rounded teaspoonfuls about 2 inches apart onto the baking sheet.  Bake 8 – 10 minutes or until lightly browned.

  Makes about 6 dozen cookies.  ***My daughter’s favorite cookie.

  I also add candied pineapple and extra cherries and walnuts so I get lots of cookies.  You need to make the dough up in a huge bowl, especially if you get carried away like I do with the fruit and nuts.  If you don’t have buttermilk, add 1 tablespoon of lemon juice to milk to make 1/2 cup.

  I hope you all have a great week.

    Beth