Recipe - Jim Jams

2 cup Oatmeal
2 cup Flour
1 cup Brown sugar
One half cup Lard
One half cup Butter
One half teaspoon Soda
One half cup Buttermilk*
FILLING
1 pound Dates
Water
One half cup Sugar** or use orange juice

*or One half tablespoon lemon juice and fill up to One half cup mark with milk. Mix all
ingredients. Chill well. Roll thin, spread half with date filling. Cover
with other half. Cut into small rectangles and bake on oiled cookie sheet.
Bake at 375F about 10 min. OR cut circles about 3 inches across, put a bit
of filling in the middle and fold over. OR cut small circles and put
filling on one and cover with another. Strawberry jam makes a tasty
filling.

FILLING: Cook 1 pound of dates with small quantity of water and One half cup
sugar. (**Or use orange rind and orange juice and omit sugar.) Chill.

Source: Abigail Breadner Shaw's handwritten cookbook with suggestions from
her granddaughter. Abigail lived just west of Toronto, Ontario from about
18601925.

From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini