Recipe - Date Filled Cookies

1 cup Shortening
1 cup Brown sugar
One half cup Milk
2 cup Oatmeal
1 One half cup Flour
3 teaspoon Baking powder
One half teaspoon Salt

Cream shortening and sugar add milk and then oatmeal. Add dry ingredients
and mix well. Dough should be soft. Chill. Roll out and cut with cookie
cutter. Bake in 375 oven till browned about 12 min. When cool put together
with date filling. FILLING: One half pound dates, 2/3 water, One half cup of brown
sugar, 1 tsp. lemon juice. Cook until thick and cool before using.

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