Baking Bonus: Great Grandma Lydia's Date Filled Cookies
Perfect cookies to add to your holidays
Ingredients
- 1 pound whole dates
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup sugar for date mixture
- 1 cup Crisco
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp soda
- 1 cup sugar for cookie dough
- 1 egg
- ½ cup milk
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 cups oatmeal, quick or old fashioned
- 2½ cups flour
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Put cut up dates, water and sugar in a sauce pan and cook over low heat, stirring occasionally until dates cook into a paste.
- Take off heat and put aside until needed.
- Combine sugar, margarine, egg, milk and vanilla in a stand mixer.
- Then add all the dry ingredients alternating oatmeal and flour.
- The dough will be sticky and so you may have to add a little more flour so that it does not stick to the counter.
- Flour the counter or pastry mat and roll out a portion of the dough.
- Knead in more flour if dough is too sticky to roll out.
- Thickness of the dough is your preference - remember - the thicker it is the thicker the cookie will be.
- Cut the dough with a glass or biscuit cutter that has been dipped in flour so that the cutter does not stick to the dough.
- Take a spatula and pick up circle and put on cookie sheet lined with a silicone baking mat
- Top the circle of dough with a tablespoon or so of date paste and cover with another circle of dough.
- Take a fork and press around the edges to seal the two circles together.
- Bake for 12-15 minutes depending on thickness of cookie.