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.
ven to 350 degrees.
Date Jam
Combine dates, sugar
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.
Sift flour and salt really well together.
Add sufficient enough milk and cream gradually, to make a firm but not dry mixture (just enough milk to make a dough, which is easy to handle and not too sticky, without to much extra flour on the board).
Roll the mixture one way lightly. Cut and place scone shapes on a cold tray and brush tops with a little milk or melted butter.
Bake in an oven set at 220C for 8 to 10 minutes.
hick.
Sprinkle dough with date mixture, pressing slightly and leaving
eef is tender.
Place scone topping on hot beef mixture
he sugar.
For the date & orange muffin, substitute 1 cup
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ery hot (400 degrees), make scone topping and place on top
ellyroll pan. Spread carefully with date filling. Sprinkle walnuts, then reserved
ixture by tablespoonfuls (including a date in each tablespoonful) and drop
lastic wrap and refrigerate until easy to handle (at least 2
Position knife blade in food processor bowl; slowly drop half each of dates and raisins through food chute with processor running.
Remove date mixture; repeat procedure with remaining dates and raisins.
Turn date mixture out onto wax paper; knead in pecans.
Shape into a 12-inch log, and roll in coconut.
Chill and thinly slice.
Yield: one 12-inch log.
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.
Pour hot water over dates.
Add soda and butter; cool.
Add sugar and egg.
Sift together dry ingredients.
Gradually stir into date mixture.
Add nuts and vanilla.
Mix.
Pour into loaf pan and bake at 350\u00b0 for 1 hour.
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.