Stuffed Monkeys
Add a little sultanas to this cookie recipe. These white grapes are what tops it all off. Stuffed monkeys is a cookie I've never heard of. Makes an interesting conversation.
Ingredients
- 1/2 pound butter
- 1 pound self rising flour
- 1/2 pound brown sugar
- cinnamon, to taste
- 2 eggs
- 2 ounce almonds
- 2 ounce raisins
- 2 ounce currants
- 1/4 pound sultanas
- mixed candied peel, to taste
- 1/4 cup sugar
- cinnamon and spices, to taste
- white of an egg
Instructions
- Rub butter into flour, add brown sugar and a little cinnamon.
- Beat 2 eggs and add make into a paste.
- Roll rather thin and cut into rounds using 2 sizes of cutters, one a little smaller than the other.
- Put some of this mixture on the larger one:- 2 ozs. each:- almonds - raisins - currants, 1/4lb sultanas and some mixed peel all chopped finely.
- Add 1/4 cup sugar and a little cinnamon and spice.
- Moisten with the white of an egg.
- Cover with smaller piece and pinch round, press into ball and bake in moderate oven until a nice brown.