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.
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