GRANDMAS PERSIMMON COOKIES

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My grandmother use to make these when i was a kid then my mom took over the making of them now i make them too!If you love spice cookies or oatmeal rasin you will love these!

Provided by Elizabeth Wallen

Categories     Cookies

Time 30m

Number Of Ingredients 12

1 c persimmon pulp (hachiya persimmon) do not use japanese small persimmons
1 c raisins
1 c walnuts or pecans
1/2 c butter
1 tsp vanillia
1/2 tsp each of cinnamon,nutmeg and ground cloves
1/2 tsp salt
1 large egg beaten
1 c sugar
1/2 c light brown sugar
1 tsp baking soda
2 c all purpose flour

Steps:

  • 1. Add 1 teaspoon baking soda to the persimmon pulp and set aside.
  • 2. In a bowl cream sugar's and butter together add Vanillia nuts,raisins and flour beaten egg and the pulp mixture. Mix lightly
  • 3. Then add salt cinnamon cloves and nutmeg and mix together with the other ingredients well.
  • 4. drop cookies by tablesspoons on a greased baking sheet bake at 350 degrees for about 12 mins .Do not over cook you want cookies to be chewy not hard.
  • 5. You will need to get the large persimmons Hachiya Persimmon they produce alot of pulp and have a good taste the small persimmons will not have enough pulp and will be bitter.I get my persimmons when in season at a Organic market or a Farmers market.

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