Ingredients:

• 2 cups icing sugar
• third cup condensed milk
• pinch of salt
• peppermint essence
• dates
• almonds

Method

• Mix half icing sugar and milk with teaspoon peppermint essence and a few drops of green colouring into a firm paste
• Take about a teaspoon of paste, roll in hands into little balls, put onto greased paper and press each ball with fork making it flat
• Leave to set
• With remainder of ingredients make into paste, following previous instructions
• When formed into balls press into them dates or almonds
• Leave to set
• No cooking needed

-Peggy Robinson