Aloha cookies

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       Title: Aloha Cookies
  Categories: Cookies
       Yield: 36 cookies
  
     1/3 c  Butter or margarine
     1/2 c  Sugar
       1    Egg
   1 1/2 c  Sifted flour
     1/4 ts Baking soda
     1/8 ts Salt
       8 oz Canned crushed pineapple
            -- drained
     1/4 c  Chopped macadamia nuts
            -OR- walnuts
     1/2 c  Chopped Calif. dried figs
 
 -----------------------------------GLAZE-----------------------------------
       1 c  Powdered sugar
       2 tb Milk
            Flaked coconut
  
   In large bowl, beat butter, sugar and egg until fluffy.  Combine flour,
   soda and salt; beat into butter-sugar mixture alternately with pineapple.
   Stir in nuts and figs.  Drop by teaspoon on greased cookie sheet.  Bake at
   350 degrees F. for 10 to 12 minutes.  While warm, dip cookies into glaze
   of powdered sugar and milk; then in coconut.
   
   Source: California Dried Figs - Recipes...Serving Ideas
   Reprinted with the permission of The California Fig Advisory Board
   Electronic format courtesy of Karen Mintzias
  
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