Delicious nut cookies

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       Title: Delicious Nut Cookies
  Categories: Cookies
       Yield: 1 servings
  
       1 c  Butter
       3    Egg
       1 x  *dissolved in:
   3 1/4 c  Flour
       1 ts Cinnamon
       1 c  Walnuts
   1 1/2 c  Sugar
       1 ts Soda
   1 1/2 tb Water, hot
     1/2 ts Salt
     1/2 c  Raisins, chopped
     1/2 c  Currants
  
     Cream the butter and add the sugar gradually. Add the eggs one at a
   time,
     working well after adding each egg. Add the dissolved soda, then half of
     the flour, mixed and sifted with the cinnamon and salt. Then add the nut
     meats, fruit and remaining flour. Drop by spoonfuls, one inch apapr, on
     buttered tins. Bake at 350-F about 15 minutes. Other nuts may be
     substituted for the walnuts. Source: Pennsylvania Dutch Cook Book - Fine
     Old Recipes, Culinary Arts Press, 1936.
  
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