168 British Columbia Women’s Institutes

DATE FILLED COOKIES

4 cup shortening 2 cups flour
Y4 cup brown sugar Y% tsp soda
14 cup sugar Y tsp salt

2 eggs

Cream shortening and sugar, add eggs and beat well. Sift dry ingredients
and add; chill while making filling. 1 cup dates, 4 cup sugar, 1% cup
water, 1 cup walnuts; combine all but nuts. Cook over low heat until
thickened (5 minutes); add nuts (chopped) and cool roll dough 1” thick.
Cut half with round cookie cutter, half with doughnut cutter. Place a
tsp. of filling on cookie rounds. ‘Top with doughnut shaped cookies. Press
edges together with fork. Bake at 400° for 10 minutes.

DATE COOKIES

114 cups brown sugar 1 cup sour cream
14% cups chopped dates 3 eggs
114 cups walnuts 2 cups flour

1 tsp soda 1 tsp vanilla

Drop from spoon on greased baking tin in moderate oven.

ALMOND COOKIES

1 cup butter 1 cup sugar

1 egg 2 cups flour

1 small tsp soda Y% cup ground almonds
1 tsp cream of tartar mm

Mix in order given. Knead well. Put on ungreased pan and flatten with
fork or glass. Place a half an almond on each. Bake in moderate oven.
(These cookies should be stored a few days.)

DAD’S COOKIES

1 scant cup butter Y tsp salt
114 cup sugar 3 scant tsp baking soda
2 eggs, well beaten 4 tsp ginger
6 tbsp syrup 4 tsp cinnamon
2 cups ground oatmeal Y% tsp allspice

2 cups flour

Drop in pans 24” apart and bake in a slow oven.

MELTING MOMENTS COOKIES

1 cup melted butter or part shortening 34 cup brown sugar

1 egg Y% tsp cream of tartar
134 cup sifted all-purpose flour Y tsp baking soda
1 tsp vanilla Y% tsp salt

Combine shortening, butter and sugar. Add egg and vanilla. Beat well.
Add sifted dry ingredients. Chill. Drop from tsp. on well greased cookie
sheet about 1/4” apart. Place a cherry on top. Bake at 350° for about
10 minutes. |