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Blueyes
11-23-2009, 10:04 AM
I found my mom's recipe for mincemeat cookies. She used to make these just for me, and I found where she had written the recipe inside the cover of one of her cook books. When I stopped crying, I baked cookies:D I can't believe she's been gone almost 4 years. She was my very best friend. Anyway...the cookies are good:)


* 1 cup butter, softened
* 1 1/2 cups sugar
* 3 eggs
* 1 jar prepared mincemeat pie filling
* 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
* 1 teaspoon baking powder
* 1 teaspoon baking soda
* 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
* 1/4 teaspoon salt
* 1 cup chopped pecans

In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar. Beat in the eggs. Add mincemeat; mix well. Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt; add to the creamed mixture and mix well. Stir in pecans. Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls 2 in. apart onto greased baking sheets. Bake at 350 degrees F for 14-16 minutes or until edges begin to brown. Remove to wire racks to cool.

DianaB
11-23-2009, 01:08 PM
Awwww......what a wonderul relationship you must of had. You are so lucky!!

gja1000
11-23-2009, 03:42 PM
Hey Betsi! I bet Gary would love these cookies - no he doesn't need them - but hey! it is the Holiday Season!!! :) He loves mincemeat pie - although I make the "mock mincemeat" (apples, oranges and spices all cooked together) for my pie.

I'm going to have to make these cookies for him!

judy
11-24-2009, 10:32 AM
Sounds delicious Betsi!

I am sorry you miss your Mom.

gja1000
11-25-2009, 08:47 PM
Betsi! I made the mincemeat cookies tonight (in fact I'm not finished baking them all yet) and Gary LOVED them. He asked where in the world did I get a mincemeat cookie recipe.

He's going to the deer lease on Friday and I always have to send something along that he can eat quickly in case of low blood sugar, and these are PERFECT!

Thanks so much for sharing your mom's recipe! I know you miss her lots, but she is still making people happy!

Blueyes
11-26-2009, 07:07 AM
Oh Gayle, I'm so glad Gary likes them!! Mike does, too...big surprise!! Please tell Gary my mothers name was Elizabeth, and she was beautiful, inside and out :) Happy Thanksgiving to you both!

gja1000
11-26-2009, 08:06 PM
Oh Gayle, I'm so glad Gary likes them!! Mike does, too...big surprise!! Please tell Gary my mothers name was Elizabeth, and she was beautiful, inside and out :) Happy Thanksgiving to you both!


I will tell him, for sure! And guess what 3-year old Emma loved them too! But we couldn't tell her the name 'mincemeat' cuz she's not much of a "meat" eater and she probably wouldn't have tried one!

Blueyes
11-27-2009, 06:33 PM
That's SO funny! My mom used to make buttermik pies and tell my boys that they were Vanilla Pies, lol!! They loved them, and we STILL call them Vanilla Pies:p