Holiday Recipe Filled Cookies

From your book: Christmas In Dairyland (True Stories From a Wisconsin Farm)

When I appeared to be a youngster we were young upon our dairy village throughout Wisconsin 40 many years ago, biscuits which has a night out filling were my my father's favored kind. Here could be the recipe.

3/4 goblet butter or margarine (softened)

3/4 tumbler shortening

2 mugs sugar

3 eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla

5 mugs flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

several tablespoons connected with dairy in the event the cash seems far too dry

Jam: blackberry, dark-colored raspberry, strawberry, red-colored raspberry, plum conserve, apple company conserve, or perhaps particular date responding to their (recipes pertaining to plum and also the apple company reduce the use of and date back filling tend to be involved below.)

Heat kiln to be able to 350 degrees. Cream butter, margarine, sugar, eggs plus vanilla. Stir in flour, making cookies powder snow as well as salt. If your dough is usually too dry, increase 1 or perhaps couple of tablespoons of milk. If the dough looks like very wet, add 1/4 or maybe 1/2 cup connected with flour.

Roll available dough. Use both a compact circular piece of food divider or perhaps one substantial circular cutter. Place biscuits on a great ungreased extreme sheet. Put one teaspoon regarding jam (or different filling) in the central of the smaller sized models or maybe off of in order to one edge from the bigger rounds. Place another modest circle on top of the actual modest rounds; fold that larger models inside half. Use your fork to be able to crimp that edges together so to stick pockets throughout the top. Bake regarding 12-15 minutes, or right up until lighting brown.

This recipe makes related to 6 months time dozen filled cookies.

The formula can furthermore often be helpful to generate cut-out Christmas cookies frosted together with colored icing.

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~ Plum Conserve ~

If plum reduce the use of created from especially for filling cookies, store any that will is still from the refrigerator as well as use on toasted bread or even biscuits. The protect could also become made in pint jars. (This recipe helps make about three pints.)

8 to 10 fresh, large, ripe plums

1/2 glass connected with water

4 cups of of sugar

2 cups of connected with raisins

1 cup sliced walnuts

2 tablespoons of lemon juice

Pit the plums as well as chop directly into smaller pieces. Place from a large saucepan in addition to add the actual glucose as well as water. Boil pertaining to 10 minutes, stirring constantly. Add the lemon juice, raisins along with walnuts and create pertaining to 10 a matter of minutes longer, stirring constantly. (Note: Recipe will also be built applying three k-cups connected with chopped oatmeal rather than plums. Add 1/2 teaspoon involving cinnamon.)

~ Date Filling ~

3 cups of sliced dates

1/2 cup sugar

1 2/3 k-cups water

1 tablespoon of lemon juice

Put all ingredients into a new saucepan along with prepare food more than small heat, stirring constantly, right until thickened (10 or maybe 15 minutes).

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