Santa's Boots

Makes 6 dozen

Tom

ingredients

1 cu honey
1 cu sugar
2 tbsp orange juice
1 oz each citron,candied orange peel, lemon peel
2 cu blanched almonds
2 cu sifted flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp cinnamon,cloves,nutmeg,
allspice
confectioner’s sugar frosting
red sugar

directions

Heat honey Add sugar and juice; stir until sugar is dissolved. Force citron,peels,and nuts through food chopper, using fine blade. Add to first mixture. Add sifted dry ingredients. Cover, and regrigerate 8 days. roll very thin on floured board, and cut with floured Santa’s-boot cutter. Bake on greased cookie sheets in moderate over, 325 deg. about 10 min. Remove at once to racks to cool. Spread with frosting.

Source: Bill's cookbook