“Hi, all. Just send this recipe to a board at AOL. Since REG said one of his comfort foods is fruitcake or anything with raisins, I thought that I’d share it with you guys too.
Pat.”

Don’t look the the words and get turned off. This cookie is very much a cookie and not a fruitcake.

Cream: 1/2 cup butter or margarine with 1 cup of dark brown sugar Add: 4 well beaten eggs. Sift together in a separate bowl: 1/2 tsp nutmeg 3 cups flour 1 tsp baking soda Combine: 1 teaspoon vanilla 3 tablespoons sour cream 3 tablespoons sherry or orange juice Add alternately to butter mixture with the shifted dry ingredients. Mix together: 1/2 cup flour 2 cups chopped nuts 1 pound white raisins 1 pound of fruit cake fruit mix. Mix together all ingredients and chill overnight.

Preheat oven to 325 degrees . Drop batter by teaspoons on a greased cookie sheets. Top with a cherry half or nut. Bake 15 minutes. These may be frozen. Yes I know it’s a long involved recipe, but it is very good. Many folks who I know and don’t like fruitcake like these. But be warned the recipe make a lot of cookies.

On other matters there have been rumours that a dyed blonde Ralph Fiennes has been strutting around the set of the next Harry Potter film as Lucius Malfoy! Other sources put Kenneth Branagh as playing the role. What IS known is, as REG told us in his responses recently, that the casting is complete for Harry Potter – so I guess that lets REG out of it.

Then again there’s always the role of Sirius Black to consider? Let’s face it, he’s a good guy, a complex character, very much like REG and probably very important in the books to come, so a much more important and visible role than Malfoy or some of the others would have – and thus, more screentime for REG!!!

So send those “REG for Sirius” petitions in now!