THIMBLE COOKIES

Cream together
34 cup butter
14 cup white sugar
Beat in
1 egg yolk
Mix in thoroughly
142 cups flour
vanilla
Roll into small balls, place on a buttered baking sheet,
and make a small dent in each with a thimble.
Bake in a moderate oven. When ready to serve fill the
centre with jelly.
Florence Endall, Minnedosa
VARIATION
Dip the unbaked balls in
ege white, unbeaten
Then in
cocoanut
or chopped nuts
Dent with a thimble and bake.
Enid Johnson, Baldur

OATMEAL JAM JAMS

Mix together
214 cups oatmeal
2 cups sifted flour
14 tsp. baking soda
14 tsp. cream of tartar
1 cup brown sugar
14 tsp. salt

1 cup shortening or lard

1 tsp. vanilla
water to make a soft dough
Roll and cut with a cookie cutter.
Put one teaspoonful filling between two cookies and press
around the edges. |
Bake in a moderate oven until slightly brown.

DATE FILLING

Mix together and boil until thick
1 cup dates, cut
1 cup white sugar
1 cup water
1 tsp. vanilla
14 tsp. vinegar
Cool before spreading between cookie dough.
Anne Wilkinson, Elm Creek

USE CO-OP DATES

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