Recipe - Esthers Date Filled Cookies

1 Box light brown sugar
1 cup Shortening
4 Eggs
1 One half teaspoon Salt
4 cup Flour
2 teaspoon Soda
2 teaspoon Baking powder

FILLING FOR COOKIES
1 lg Package dates; chopped
1 One half cup Sugar
1 One fourth cup Water
2 teaspoon Lemon juice
1 pn Salt
1 cup Nuts; chopped

Cream sugar and shortening together. Add eggs one at a time, beating after
each addition. Stir in remaining ingredients. Mix well. Roll in balls;
place on greased cookie sheet and flatten very thin with a glass. Place
teaspoon of filling (see below) on one cookie and place another cookie on
top.

Bake at 350F for 8 minutes.

FILLING:

Cook dates, sugar and water until thick. Add lemon juice and salt. Stir in
nuts. Cool filling. Put two cookies together with this filling.

Yields about 50 cookies.

Recipe by: Esther Guyer

Posted to TNT Recipes Digest by "Art Guyer" ThePoint@beachlink.com on May
01, 1998