Filled Drop Cookies
Old Binder typed card
Ingredients
- 1 cup soft shortening
- 2 cups brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- ½ cup sour milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3½ cups sifted flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon soda
- ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
- 2 cups ground dates
- 2 cups ground nuts
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 3/4 cup water
Directions
- Cook until thick, stirring constantly.
- Drop dough from teaspoon. Make a depression in each cookie with bowl of spoon dipped in water
- Place a little of the filling in each one, then top with a bit more dough.
- Bake at 350
Temperature: 350
Equipment: spoon
Arwilda’s changes
- Added “Bake at 350”
Blue Binder handwritten card
Ingredients
- 1 cup soft shortening
- 2 cups brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup sour milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 1/2 cups sifted flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon soda
- 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
- 2 cups cut up dates
- 2 cups cut up nuts
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 3/4 cup water
Directions
- Bake 350°.
- Cook until thick, stirring constantly.
- Bake at 350°
- Drop dough from teaspoon
- Make a depression in each cookie with Back of round spoon dipped in water.
- Place a little filling in each. Then Top with more dough.
Temperature: 350°
As written
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Filling
Arwilda’s changes
- Added “thick”
Decorative Recipe Tin two-sided handwritten card
Ingredients
- 1 cup soft shortening
- 2 cups brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 c milk or 1/3 cup water
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 3 1/2 cups sifted flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp soda
- 1/4 tsp cinnamon
- 2 cups cut-up dates; nuts; 3/4 cup sugar; 3/4 cup water
- nuts
- 3/4 cup sugar
Directions
- Drop dough from teaspoon. Make a depression in each with bowl of rounded spoon dipped in water. Place a little of the filling in each one, then top with a bit more dough.
Timing: Bake 10-12 min.
Temperature: damaged mark after Bake 10-12 min., possibly beginning with 4
Equipment: teaspoon and rounded spoon
Compare the cards
Date and nut preparation
- Blue Binder handwritten card
- 2 cups cut up dates and 2 cups cut up nuts
- Old Binder typed card
- 2 cups ground dates and 2 cups ground nuts
- Decorative Recipe Tin two-sided handwritten card
- 2 cups cut up dates and nuts with no quantity or processing word
Depression and filling assembly
- Blue Binder handwritten card
- Make a depression with the back of a round spoon dipped in water; place filling in each [unclear word], then top with more dough.
- Old Binder typed card
- Make a depression in each cookie with bowl of spoon dipped in water; place filling in each one, then top with a bit more dough.
- Decorative Recipe Tin two-sided handwritten card
- Make a depression in each with bowl of rounded spoon dipped in water; place a little filling in each one, then top with a bit more dough.
Filling cook instruction
- Blue Binder handwritten card
- Cook until [crossed-out unreadable word] thick, stirring constantly; thick remains active.
- Old Binder typed card
- Cook until thick, stirring constantly, with no visible deletion.
- Decorative Recipe Tin two-sided handwritten card
- Cook until thick, stirring constantly, with no visible deletion.
Dough liquid
- Blue Binder handwritten card
- 1/2 cup sour milk
- Old Binder typed card
- 1/2 cup sour milk
- Decorative Recipe Tin two-sided handwritten card
- 1/2 cup sour milk or 1/3 cup water
Baking duration and setting
- Blue Binder handwritten card
- Bake at 350 degrees; no duration stated
- Old Binder typed card
- Bake at 350 degrees; no duration stated
- Decorative Recipe Tin two-sided handwritten card
- Bake 10 to 12 minutes; the following setting is torn and unresolved
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