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.
Heat oven to 400\u00b0.
Mix thoroughly shortening, brown sugar and eggs.
Stir in water and vanilla.
Sift together and stir in flour, salt, soda and cinnamon.
Drop with teaspoon on ungreased baking sheet.
Place 1/2 teaspoon Date Filling on dough; cover with another 1/2 teaspoon of dough.
Bake until lightly browned, 10 to 12 minutes.
Makes 5 to 6 dozen.
Prepare Date Filling; cool.
Heat oven to 400\u00b0.
Grease square pan, 9 x 9 x 2-inch.
Mix brown sugar, margarine and shortening. Mix in baking mix and oats.
Press half of the crumbly mixture in pan; spread with filling.
Top with remaining crumbly mixture; press gently into filling.
Bake until light brown, 25 to 30 minutes.
Cut into bars, about 2 x 1 1/2-inch.
Makes 2 dozen cookies.
Combine dates, sugar, and eggs in a skillet; place over medium heat. Cook and stir until mixture is cooked through and thickened, about 5 minutes. Remove skillet from heat and stir rice cereal, vanilla extract, and salt into egg mixture. Roll mixture into a log.
Sprinkle coconut over a sheet of waxed paper. Roll date log in the coconut until coated. Cover date log with aluminum foil and refrigerate until set, about 1 hour. Cut log into 1/4-inch slices.
nto the top of each log, running all the way across
mall bowl.
Cut the log into twenty 12-inch rounds
he sugar.
For the date & orange muffin, substitute 1 cup
ellyroll pan. Spread carefully with date filling. Sprinkle walnuts, then reserved
Melt butter, add sugar.
Stir until melted.
Add dates and boil 5 minutes.
Remove from heat.
Add nuts and cereal.
Mix well; cool.
Roll in shape of log, then roll in powdered sugar. Cool well before slicing.
ixture by tablespoonfuls (including a date in each tablespoonful) and drop
or our own use.
Date Nut Bread using starter:
Assemble blender.
Put water, orange juice and dates in blender container.
Cover and process at blend for 2 to 3 cycles. Cook mixture on low heat until thickened.
Blend chopped nuts. Add to date mixture.
Cool.
For the date filling, combine dates, water, and
ough by rounded teaspoonfuls (1 date per cookie) onto a greased
Stuff dates with nuts.
Cream shortening and sugar until light; beat in egg.
Sift dry ingredients.
Add alternately with sour cream to creamed mixture.
Stir in dates.
Drop onto greased cookie sheet (a date per cookie).
Bake in 375\u00b0 oven.
Watch closely; do not overbrown.
Cool.
Top with Golden Frosting. Makes 5 1/2 dozen.
ray.
To make the date jam, bring dates, sugar and
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Fill with Date Filling, to form a sandwich
Pour the tahini on a serving platter.
Drizzle or pour date syrup in circles and swirl with the edge of a spoon to make a pretty pattern.
Toast sesame seeds in a dry pan and sprinkle over top (this is what warms it up slightly).
Sprinkle on ground cinnamon and serve immediately with sliced apples and pita wedges to dip.
Enjoy!
br>Meanwhile, to make the date filling, combine dates, lemon zest
innamon sugar.
For the date-oat bars, preheat oven to