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A couple of weeks back we made some delicious cookies, Christmas style. We added the raisins to imitate mince pies, and the cranberries just because we had a surplus. The end product tastes really spicy, almost like gingerbread, but the sultana\'s and cranberries match with the spice really well.

Ingredients
-100g of butter
-75g of caster sugar OR 100g of light brown sugar
-1 egg
-1 tsp of cinnamon
-1 pinch of ground cloves
-1 pinch of ground cardamon
-1 tsp of ground ginger
-1 pinch of black pepper
- lemon zest, to taste
-cranberries, to taste
-sultanas, to taste
-200g of plain flour
-1 and a half tsp of bicarbonate of soda
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Method
1) Cream the butter with the sugar.
2) Add one egg, and mix
3) Add the spices, lemon zest, cranberries and sultanas
4)Make the mixture into a dough, by adding the plain flour and the bicarbonate of soda.
6)Then separate the dough into several cookie sized pieces, and bake in the oven for 10 minutes at 180 degrees centigrade.