Date Pinwheels - cooking recipe

Ingredients

8 oz. dates
1/2 c. sugar
1/2 c. water
1/4 c. chopped nuts
3 1/2 c. flour
1 tsp. baking soda
2 c. brown sugar
1 c. Crisco
2 eggs
1 Tbsp. lemon juice
1 tsp. vanilla

Preparation

Boil the first 3 ingredients until thick. Add the nuts when mix is cool.
Mix the flour and baking soda.
Put aside.
Beat together the brown sugar, Crisco, eggs, lemon juice and vanilla. Add the date mixture and the flour mixture together.
Roll out dough to 1/2-inch thick.
Now spread the date-nut mix over all of the dough mix.
Now roll it up into a roll like jelly roll and put in wax paper. Store in refrigerator for a day.