Recipe - Passover Lf Chocolate Chip Raisin Cookies

One half cup Pitted dates
One half cup Water
1 teaspoon Potato starch
One half teaspoon Vanilla extract
One half teaspoon Almond extract
1/3 cup Brown sugar
1/3 cup Granulated sugar
1 Egg white
Three fourths cup Matzo cake meal *note
One fourth cup Matzo meal
2 tablespoon Potato starch
1 ds Salt
One half cup Chocolate chips, semi sweet
1/3 cup Raisins
Vegetable spray

*note or finely grind matzo meal in blender

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Combine dates and water in a saucepan and
simmer about 10 minutes until soft. Add 1 teaspoon potato starch and simmer
5 minutes more until thickened. 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 matzo cake meal, matzo meal, potato
starch and salt. Thoroughly mix wet and dry ingredients together with a
spoon, not mixer. Stir in chocolate chips and raisins. Chill dough in
refrigerator for 30 minutes.

Roll teaspoonful into a ball and place on teflon cookie sheets. Flatten
slightly with back of a spoon. Bake 20 minutes. Let cookies partially cool
on cookie sheet, then remove carefully to cooling rack.

(Dough can be frozen and baked the next day dough is even easier to work
with.)

Makes 24 cookies.

Per cookie: Cal 75, Fat 1.2g, CFF 15%, Choles 0, Carbo 13.5g, Fiber 1.1g,
Potassium 66g.

Recipe by: Natalie Frankel Posted to JEWISHFOOD digest V97 #081 by
"Natalie Frankel" Natalie.Frankel@mixcom.com on Mar 9, 1997