Recipe - Low-Fat Persimmon Cookies

1 cup Unbleached flour
1 cup Whole wheat flour
One half teaspoon Salt
One half teaspoon Cinnamon
One half teaspoon Cloves
One half teaspoon Nutmeg
Three fourths cup Sugar
1 cup Persimmon pulp (do not
sieve)
1 teaspoon Baking soda
2 Egg whites
One half cup Applesauce
1 cup Currants
One fourth cup Chopped almonds (optional)

Combine dry ingredients except baking soda. Add baking soda to persimmon
pulp and beat in egg whites. Add dry ingredients to persimmon pulp, stir in
applesauce currants, and almonds. Make drop cookies. Place on a cookie
sheet sprayed with a nonstick product.

Bake at 375 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes.

Per serving (2 cookies): 114 calories, less than one gram fat.

Posted to EATL Digest 03 Dec 96

From: "Craig L. Meyer" clmeyer@CYBERSTREET.COM

Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 10:14:38 0500