Recipe - Drop Date Cookies

One fourth cup Butter
1 cup Brown sugar
1 Egg beaten
One fourth cup Warm water
1 teaspoon Vanilla
2 cup Flour
Three fourths teaspoon Baking soda
One fourth teaspoon Salt
FILLING:
1 pack Dates (small pkg)
Chopped
One fourth cup Sugar
Three fourths cup Warm water
One half teaspoon Vanilla
OR maple extract
1 tablespoon Cornstarch

Cream butter and sugar; beat in eggs, water and vanilla. Stir dry
ingredients in. Boil the filling ingredients slowly until dates are cooked
then thicken with cornstarch. Drop cookie dough on cookie sheet. Put some
date filling on top, then put a dab of cookie dough on top of the filling.
Bake in 400 degree oven for 1015 minutes.

Recipe By : "Homemade Happiness" St.Anne's Parish, Caribou Maine

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