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Fruit Rolls

1/8 lb. chopped candied citron peel 1/2 cupful chopped English walnut meats 1 cupful milk 1 yeast cake 1/4 cupful lukewarm water 1/4 cupful sugar 1½ cupful currants 1/4 cupful melted Crisco 2 teaspoonfuls salt 2 eggs 1½ cupful chopped cocoanut 1½ cupful sultana raisins 1½ teaspoonful powdered cinnamon 1½ teaspoonful powdered mace Flour Scald milk, when lukewarm add yeast cake dissolved in tepid water and 1/2 cupfuls flour, beat well, cover and let rise till light. Add sugar, salt, eggs well beaten, Crisco and enough flour to knead; knead, let rise again. Roll out one-eighth inch thick, spread with melted Crisco, sprinkle with sugar, cinnamon and mace, fruit and nuts; roll like jelly roll and cut in one inch pieces. Place pieces in Criscoed pan, let rise, brush over with melted Crisco, and bake in hot oven twenty minutes.

Sufficient for sixteen rolls.

X 2 cupfuls molasses 1 cupful brown sugar

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