Holiday Recipe Filled Cookies

From the book: Christmas In Dairyland (True Stories From a new Wisconsin Farm)

When I ended up being a young child rising in place with our dairy park with Wisconsin 40 many years ago, cookies which includes a time filling were my pop's favorite kind. Here will be recipe.

3/4 cup butter or even margarine (softened)

3/4 cup shortening

2 mugs sugar

3 eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla

5 cups flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

several tablespoons associated with milk if the money appears way too dry

Jam: blackberry, dark raspberry, strawberry, red raspberry, plum conserve, apple conserve, or date back filling (recipes regarding plum and the apple company preserve as well as particular date filling usually are involved below.)

Heat stove to 350 degrees. Cream butter, margarine, sugar, eggs along with vanilla. Stir with flour, making cookies powder snow and salt. If this money is very dry, add a single or only two tablespoons regarding milk. If the money seems too wet, create 1/4 as well as 1/2 cup associated with flour.

Roll out and about dough. Use both a smaller circle cereal bar used vinyl cutter or even one great spherical cutter. Place cookies on a good ungreased extreme sheet. Put a single teaspoon associated with jam (or different filling) in the middle on the smaller models or even off to 1 side from the larger rounds. Place a different modest round over the actual small rounds; fold this larger rounds within half. Use a fork to crimp this sides collectively and to poke openings in the top. Bake regarding 15 minutes, and also until light source brown.

This recipe would make regarding six dozens of filled up cookies.

The recipe can even be utilized to create cut-out Christmas cookies frosted with colored icing.

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~ Plum Conserve ~

If plum preserve is manufactured particularly regarding completing cookies, store any that stays while in the refrigerator in addition to work with upon bread toasted or perhaps biscuits. The maintain can certainly additionally be sealed with pint jars. (This recipe tends to make about three pints.)

8 to 10 fresh, large, ripe plums

1/2 goblet regarding water

4 cups regarding sugar

2 k-cups connected with raisins

1 goblet sliced walnuts

2 tablespoons with lemon juice

Pit your plums and also chop straight into modest pieces. Place in a huge saucepan in addition to include the particular sugars and water. Boil for 10 minutes, stirring constantly. Add the lemon juice, raisins as well as walnuts as well as create intended for 10 a matter of minutes longer, stirring constantly. (Note: Recipe may also be created making use of 3 or more cups involving sliced cheerios besides plums. Add 1/2 teaspoon with cinnamon.)

~ Date Filling ~

3 cups of chopped goes

1/2 tumbler sugar

1 2/3 glasses water

1 tablespoon lemon juice

Put almost all substances right saucepan and also prepare food above decreased heat, stirring constantly, until finally thickened (10 or 15 minutes).

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