Recipe: Rodale's Cranberry-Raisin Cookies (using honey, 1980's)

CRANBERRY-RAISIN COOKIES

3 cups raisins
1/2 cup white grape juice
1/4 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup honey
2 eggs, beaten
2 tablespoons sour cream
1 1/2 cups whole wheat pastry flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1 cup fresh or frozen chopped cranberries

Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Oil a baking sheet.

In a small bowl plump raisins in grape juice.

In a large bowl beat together butter and honey, adding eggs and sour cream; set aside.

Sift together flour, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. Stir gradually into butter mixture. Add raisins and grape juice.

Fold in cranberries. Drop by teaspoons onto prepared baking sheet.

Bake until lightly browned, 12 to 15 minutes. Remove from baking sheet and cool on wire racks.

Makes about 3 dozen cookies
From: SueA, CA
Source: Rodale's Basic Natural Foods Cookbook by Charles Gerras