Recipe - Pin Wheel Cookies

1 cup Shortening
2 cup Brown sugar
3 Eggs; beaten
4 cup Flour; sifted
One half teaspoon Salt
One half teaspoon Soda in flour; ? baking
powder ?
2 One fourth cup Dates; chopped
1 cup Sugar
1 cup Water

Boils sugar and water well for 10 minutes. When cold, put in fruit and
chopped nuts, 1 c., roll 1 inch thick, spread with fruit and roll uplike
jelly roll. Let stand over night. Slice and bake. Note: When boiled mix is
cold, beat in eggs, salt, flour, soda in flour (baking powder?). THEN roll
it out, spread dates, etc, etc.

Source: Mrs. Fred Allen, Oak Harbor Grange, Ottawa County, OH Martha C.
Lyle, Highland Grange, Highland County, OH Mrs. Pfaff, Experiment Grange,
Wayne County, OH
Posted to MMRecipes Digest by "Rfm" RobertMiles@usa.net on May 03, 98