fruitcake cookies
I’m not a fan of fruitcake, but these Fruitcake Cookies are delicious and are a special favorite of my sister, Beth. The ladies of Shady Dale, Georgia—among them, Mrs. Fannie Newton (the grandmother of my high school friend Lynn Newton Deraney) and Mrs. Sara Martin—were known as great cooks. They made and sold baked goods to places as far away as King Plow Company in Atlanta, Georgia. For this reason, some of their recipes were closely guarded secrets. However, they were very generous in sharing the baked goods locally. (We’re told that Miss Sara didn’t cook but was the delivery person!) They would send goodies to the Bank of Monticello, where Daddy worked and, somehow, he managed to get a copy of this recipe. I’m sure it was his southern gentleman’s charm.