How To Make Date Cookies
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This section is from the book "Neighborhood Cook Book", by Circle No. 5, Women's Union, Hemenway Methodist Church. Also available from Amazon: Julia's Kitchen Wisdom: Essential Techniques and Recipes from a Lifetime of Cooking.
How To Make Date Cookies
Date Strips
3 eggs well beaten, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup flour, 5 tbsp. hot water, 1 cup walnut meats, 1 cup chopped dates, 2 tsp. baking powder, 1/2 tsp. cinnamon, pinch of salt.
Mix together in the order given; spread thinly in square pans. Bake in slow oven; cut in strips when done. - Mrs. J. D. Kindig.
Date Bars
Beat 3 eggs into 1 cup of sugar and pinch of salt. Add 3/4 cup flour, sifted with 1 tsp. baking powder, tsp. vanilla, 1 package cut dates, 1 cup nuts. Bake 1/2 hour, and cover with powdered sugar. Cut in bars.
- Mrs. Bruce W. Thayer.
Date Cookies
2 cups rolled oats, 2 1/2 cups flour, 1 cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 1/2 cup lard, 1/2 cup sour milk, 1 tsp. soda. FILLING. 1 lb. dates, 1 cup brown sugar, 1 cup hot water; cook until smooth and thick. Boll the dough out quite thin, spread filling between two layers and bake in sheets in hot oven. When cool cut in squares.
- Mrs. C. B. Coon.
Date Bars
1 lb. dates stoned and chopped, 1 tsp. soda sprinkled over the. dates, then 1 cup boiling water poured over them Let cool and drain; add to the dates. 1 cup sugar, 1/3 cup creamed butter, 1 egg beaten. Then add 1 1/2 cups flour, 1/2 cup nut meats and the water drained from the dates. Mix all well together. Bake slowly 45 minutes in pan 7x12 inches. Cut in bars when cold.
- Mrs. G. F. Falley.
Date Sticks
3 whole eggs, pinch salt, 1 cup granulated sugar, 1 cup flour, 1 tsp. baking powder. Cut up a package of dates and add 1 cup of chopped walnut meats. Put the dates in the flour and add eggs, slightly-beaten, and enough milk to moisten. Spread thin in dripping pan. Bake in slow oven, and powder with pulverized sugar. Cut while hot into strips.
- Mrs. H. McPherrin.
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