Recipe - Date-Cream-Cheese Roll-Ups

1 cup Soft butter
One half pound Cream cheese
2 cup Sifted flour
One fourth teaspoon Salt
Confectioners' sugar; if
desired, in a shaker
Mixture of pitted dates;
candied cherries (well
drained), soft pitted
prunes and walnut halfs.

1. Cream butter and cheese together. Blend in flour and salt.

2. Chill for several hours, or until firm enough to roll. Roll to 1/4_inch
thickness on board sprinkled with confectioners' sugar.

3. Cut in 1x3inch strips with pastry wheel. Put your choice of fruit or
nut into center of each strip, and roll up. Place, folded side down, onto
cookie sheets.

4. Bake in moderate oven (375øF.) for about 15 minutes.

5. Cool slightly and, if desired, sprinkle with confectioners' sugar.

6. Makes about 8 dozen cookies.

(I find that fruits give the best results, the nuts are a bit too dry for
my taste. These cookies are fairly light and also freeze rather well.)

(From "Woman's Day Cookie Cook Book", abridged, published in 1963 (second
edition) by the Fawcett Publications)

Posted to BakeryShoppe Digest V1 #443 by S J F Brocaar acesjfb@shore.net
on Dec 07, 1997