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Recipe of the Month:
 
Oatmeal Cranberry White Chocolate Cookies!
2/3 cups butter or margarine (softened)
2/3 cups Honey
2 large eggs
1 and 1/2 cups old fashioned oats
1 and 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
16 oz. package of craisins (dried cranberries)
2/3 cups white chocolate chips
 
 
        Preheat oven to 350 * F. Using an electric mixer, beat butter or margarine and honey together untill light and fluffy. Add eggs, mix well.  Combine oats, flour, baking soda, and salt in a separate bowl.  Add butter mixture in several additions.  Mixing well after each addition.  Stir in dried cranberries and white chocolate chips.  Drop rounded teaspoons onto ungreased (or parchment paper lined) cookie sheets.  Bake 10-12 minutes or untill golden brown.  Cool on wire rack.  Makes 2 and 1/2 dozen.
 
From: The American Honey Queen and Princess Honey Recipes 2007.  These were the cookies that Ron brought at the last meeting and they were a hit, not a single one left. 
 
 
 Last Month:
HONEY RUM FRUIT BOAT
1/2 cup honey
3 to 4 tabelspoons rum, or 1 teaspoon rum flavoring
1 fresh ripe pineapple
2 oranges (navel) peeled and sliced
1 cup grapes
Stir honey and rum together in medium glass bowl untill blended, then set aside.  Cut pineapple in half lengthwise including green top.  Carefully carve fruit from center leaving shells intact.  Slice pineapple pieces.  Add pineapple, oranges, and grapes to honey mixture, stir until fruit is well coated.  Serve chilled or at room temperature.  Makes 4 servings
 
From: Sweetened with HONEY, The Natural Way a cookbook from the National Honey Board.