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Raisin and Date filled cookies (Great, Great Grandma Boothe) Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
The Dough:
1 c shortening (crisco)
2 c brown sugar
3 eggs
1 t vanilla
1 t soda, dissolved in 2 T hot water
4 c flour
2 t baking powder
1/4 t salt

Raising Filling:
1 c brown sugar
1 c raisins
2 1/2 T flour
1 c hot water
1 t vanilla
chopped nuts if desired
Directions:
Directions:
Cream the shortening and sugar really good and then add the eggs and beat some more and then add the vanilla, soda, water. Add 1 c of flour with the baking powder and salt. Finally, mix in last 3 cups of flour. Refrigerate after mixing for 1-2 hours, while preparing the filling. Dough can be made a few days ahead and stored wrapped in foil or plastic wrap. If it is sticky when brought out to use, add a little bit of flour while rolling.
Roll out dough in thin layers in small batches and cut with a round cookie cutter. Put about a Tablespoon of filling mixture in the center between 2 thin cookies pressed together.
Bake at 350º on a lightly greased sheet pan for 8-10 minutes until bottoms are lightly browned.

For Filling:
Combine all ingredients in a pan, bring to a boil and boil for 8-10 minutes or until thick.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
From Grandpa Boothe:
I can remember eating my grandmother Boothe's cookies, sometimes sitting on her front porch and other times witting in the small breakfast nook at the back of her house that overlooked a small horse barn next to the milk river in Malta Montana.

 

 

 

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