Recipe - Diabetic Refrigerator Cookies

One half cup Butter or Margarine
1 Egg
2 teaspoon Vanilla
1 teaspoon Baking powder
ds Salt
1 cup Flour
1 cup Dates, unsugared, chopped
1 cup Coconut, shredded
1 cup Walnuts or Pecans

Cream butter, egg and vanilla until mixed and fluffy. Beat in dry
ingredients gradually mixing well after each addition. Mix in dates,
coconut and 1/ cup of the nuts. Form dough into two 1One half inch logs. Roll
logs into remaining nuts (One fourth cup each). Wrap in waxed paper and chill (or
freeze) until firm enough to slice. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Slice
cookies One fourth inch thick and place on a nonstick cookie sheet. Bake 1012
minutes until light golden brown. Cool on wire racks.

2 cookies = 1 fat, One half fruit, One fourth brd, 95 cal. carbs = 11.5, pro = 1, f = 5

Approved by the Diabetes Assoc.
Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #323

From: Walt Gray waltgray@mnsinc.com

Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 21:25:18 0500