Recipe - Lf Chocolate Chip Raisin Cookies T

One half cup Pitted dates
One half cup Water
1 teaspoon Whole wheat flour
One fourth teaspoon Vanilla extract
1/3 cup Brown sugar
1/3 cup Granulated sugar, * see note
1 Egg white
One half cup Whole wheat flour
One half cup Rolled oats, * see note
One half teaspoon Baking soda
1 ds Salt
One half cup Chocolate chips, semi sweet
One fourth cup Raisins
Vegetable spray

* Note I used turbinado sugar

* Note If not using rolled oats (uncooked oatmeal), use 1 cup whole wheat
flour

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Combine dates and water in a saucepan and
simmer about 10 minutes until soft. Add 1 tsp whole wheat flour and mix to
thicken. (Or use the date pieces from the natural food store that are
coated with oat flour and skip this step.) By spoon, mash dates and mix
with vanilla. Spoon date puree into a mixing bowl and cream sugars with an
electric mixer. Add egg white and blend.

In a separate mixing bowl, combine flours, baking soda and salt. Thoroughly
mix wet and dry ingredients together by hand. Stir in chocolate chips and
raisins. Chill dough in the refrigerator for 10 minutes.

Drop dough by teaspoonful onto cookie sheets coated with cooking spray.
Bake until edges are golden brown, about 78 minutes.

Makes 24 cookies.

Per cookie: Cal 68, Fat 1.2g, CFF 14%, Choles 0, Carbo 13.5g, Fiber 1.1g,
Potassium 66g.

Recipe by: : Health Magazine, Jan/Feb 1996 Posted to Digest
eatlf.v097.n085 by "Natalie Frankel" Natalie.Frankel@mixcom.com on Mar
29, 1997