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Chocolate Nut And Fruit Cookies

1/3 cup Cottolene. 1 cup sugar. 1/4 cup grated chocolate. 2 extra tablespoons sugar. 2 tablespoons boiling water. 2 eggs well beaten. 1 cup nut meats chopped. 1 cup raisins seeded and shredded. 21/4 cups flour. 3 tablespoons baking powder. 1/4 teaspoon salt.

PROCESS: Cream Cottolene, add sugar gradually, stirring constantly. Melt chocolate over hot water, add the two extra tablespoons sugar and boiling water. Cook one minute; when cool add to first mixture. Add beaten eggs. Mix and sift flour (reserving one-fourth cup), baking powder and salt. Add to cake mixture. Add fruit and nut meats dredged with remaining flour. Chill mixture. Drop from spoon onto a well-greased baking sheet one and one-half inches apart; press a raisin or the half a nut meat in center of each cake and bake in a moderate oven. 1/3 cup Cottolene. 1 cup fine sugar.