Main Ingredients:

See below ingredients and instructions of the recipe

Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

1/4 c Sugar
2 tb Shortening
1/2 c Currants
1 1/2 tb Minced candied orange peel
1 1/2 tb Minced candied lemon peel
1/8 ts Nutmeg
1/8 ts Cinnamon
1/2 Egg, slightly beaten
2 tb Cookie or biscuit crumbs
1 1/2 tb Minced candied citron

Cream shortening and sugar. Add candied peel, citron, currants,
crumbs, nutmeg, cinnamon, and egg. Mix thoroughly. Cut plain pastry
in rounds 6 inches in diameter. Place 1 tablespoon of fruit mixture
on 1/2 of each round. Moisten edges. Fold like a turnover. Press
edges together. Crimp. Brush with slightly beaten egg, or water.
Sprinkle with sugar. Bake in hot oven (450 F) 10 minutes, or until
brown.

Florence Taft Eaton, Concord, MA.

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