Cookie - Holiday Fruit Cookies

1/2 cup shortening
1 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 3/4 cups flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp soda
1/4 cup thick sour milk
3/4 cup broken pecans and 36 pecan halves
3/4 cup candied cherries cut in half
3/4 cup dates, cut up

Cream shortening  and sugar well.  Add well beaten egg.  Sift flour once before measuring.  Add salt and baking soda .  With mixer running, add the flour mixture alternation with sour milk.  Add nuts and fruit with last addition of flour.  Drop by teaspoonful onto a greased cookie sheet and place a pecan half on each.

Bake 10 - 13 minutes in a moderate 400 degree oven.