ender, about 10 minutes.
Oatmeal Cookies:
Cream butter and brown
br>Cool.
Fill with Date Filling, to form a sandwich
b>cookies on a greased cookie sheet.
Place about 1 teaspoon Date
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To make Simple Oatmeal Cookies: Mix the flour, baking soda
Cook dates in water until tender; add sugar and lemon juice. Cool.
Mix and sift dry ingredients; add oatmeal.
Cut in shortening.
Press 1/2 of mixture on bottom of 9-inch square pan. Cover with date mixture.
Sprinkle remaining dry
mixture on top. Press lightly.
Bake in 350\u00b0 oven for 30 minutes.
Cool and cut into squares.
nd flatten in pan.
Date filling:.
Place dates, sugar
br>For each batch of cookies use 4 cups mix and
Nancy's note's on Oatmeal cookies; they are called Melanie's
Cookies: Cream oleo, sugar and milk.
Sift and add dry ingredients.
Mix well and chill well (at least an hour).
Roll thin on a piece of lightly floured plastic wrap and cover with a thin layer of filling.
Roll dough up jellyroll style.
Chill thoroughly.
Preheat over to 350\u00b0F.
Cut in slices and place on greased baking sheet.
Bake 8-10 minutes.
Filling: Simmer and stir sugar, dates and water until thick.
Add vanilla and cool.
Preheat oven to 375\u00b0.
Combine apples, raisins, pecans, granulated sugar and water. Cook and stir until thick and apples are tender (about 10 minutes). Cream the butter and brown sugar. Beat in eggs. Sift dry ingredients. Add to creamed mixture alternately with milk. Stir in oatmeal. Set aside 3/4 cup dough. Drop by teaspoon on cookie sheet.
Make small depression and put in apple filling.
Top with small amount of dough.
Bake 10 to 15 minutes at 375\u00b0.
Make your own favorite oatmeal cookie recipe.
Substitute the liquid in your recipe with crushed pineapple and its juice.
(If your recipe calls for 1 cup water, substitute 1/2 cup crushed pineapple and 1/2 cup pineapple juice.) Bake for the time and temperature called for in your favorite recipe.
onger for crisp).
Slide cookies off parchment to cooling rack
Blend all together as for pie crust.
Roll thin on floured board.
Cut with round cutter.
Bake at 350 degrees until lightly browned. (was about 12-15 minutes.).
Filling: Add all ingredients, except nuts into a saucepan and cook until thick.
Add nuts after.
Spread filling in between cookies. These cookies freeze well.
Combine shortening, salt and vanilla.
Blend.
Add sugar and cream well.
Add beaten egg and mix thoroughly.
Sift flour and baking powder.
Add to the first, alternately with milk, blending well.
Chill dough.
Roll dough 1/8-inch thick on floured board. Cut into 3-inch cookie.
Place one cookie on ungreased cookie sheet.
Add 1 teaspoon of Date Filling (recipe to follow).
Cover with another cookie.
Press together with a fork.
Prick top of each cookie with a fork.
Bake at 375\u00b0 for about 15 minutes.
hocolate.
TO MAKE THE COOKIES:
Whisk the flour and
ookie. Add approx 1 tsp date filling in the hole, then
Combine flour, oats, soda, salt, & brown sugar.
Cut butter in until it reaches the consistency of coarse meal.
Press half of mixture across the bottom of an ungreased 12x8x2 baking pan.
Combine dates, 1 c. sugar, and water in saucepan.
Cook on low until sugar dissolves, dates soften, and mixture is thick and mushy.
Spread date mixture over dough in pan.
Cover with remaining dough.
Bake at 325 for 40 min or until lightly browned.
Cut into 1\"x2\" bars while still warm; remove to wire racks to cool.
ire rack to finish cooling. Cookies can be stored in a
Combine dates, 1/4 cup sugar and water in small saucepan. Cook 5 minutes, until mixture boils and thickens.
Remove from heat; add extract.
Cool.
Combine remaining ingredients in separate bowl along with remaining 1/2 cup sugar.
Sprinkle half of mixture in bottom of 8-inch baking pan.
Cover with date mixture.
Cover with other half of oatmeal mixture.
Press down slightly.
Bake 30 minutes.
Cut while warm.
lace a teaspoonful of the date filling in the centre. Fold