Submitted by Barbara Leger Kaplan, LA
on Monday, May 13, 2002
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Makes:
Prep Time:
10 minutes
Cook Time:
20 minutes
Ready In:
30 minutes
Plato thought that the fig was the best nutritional food for athletes... so much so, that there is a story, which indicates that Greece made it against the law to export figs, because they wanted to make sure that they had the advantage at the Olympic Games. Maw Maw sure would high jump for fresh figs to make fig preserves and jam.
Ingredients
2 cups sugar
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 cup butter or margarine
2 cups chopped pecans
3 1/2 cup flour
3 eggs
1 cup fig preserves
Directions
Cream sugar, butter and eggs. Add flour and soda. Then add mashed fig preserves. Mix in pecans. Drop by teaspoons on greased cookie sheet. Bake at 375 degrees for 20 minutes
