Recipe - Holiday Cutouts

1 cup Butter or margarine
1 cup Light brown sugar
1 Egg; unbeaten
1 One half cup Quickcooking oats; uncooked
2 One fourth cup Allpurpose flour
1 teaspoon Soda
One half teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Vanilla
One fourth cup Dr Pepper
Preserves or jelly

Cream butter and sugar. Beat until light and fluffy. Add egg and beat
again. Add oats and mix well. Sift together flour, salt, soda, adding
alternately with the Dr Pepper to which you have added the vanilla. Divide
into 4 or 5 portions and chill several hours. Then roll out to 1/8 inch
thickness. Cut into rounds with 2inch round cutter. Using a small cookie
cutter, cut an opening in the center of half of the rounds. Place the whole
rounds on ungreased cookie sheet. Top each with about One half teaspoon of your
favorite preserves. Top with the cutout cookie. Seal the edges with fork
dipped in flour. Bake at 375 for 12 to 15 minutes until nicely browned.
Remove to cooling rack.

Yield: 6 dozen

Variation: Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto an ungreased cookie sheet.
Make thumb print on each cookie and fill with preserves.

Posted to brandnamerecipes by Ann_Bartholomew@dpsu.com on Feb 6, 1998