Grandma Dougherty's Date Nut Refrigerator Cookies Recipe
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Ingredients: 1 c. soft shortening
½ c. sugar
½ c. brown sugar
2 eggs
1½ tsp vanilla -- added to eggs
2¾ c. sifted flour
½ tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
Filling
1 lb dates
¼ c. sugar
1½ c. water
¾ c. nuts (preferably pecans)
1 tsp. vanilla
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Directions:Mix shortening, sugars, eggs and vanilla thoroughly
Sift dry ingredients together and stir in. Chill dough in fridge.
Make date mixture by combining dates, sugar and water in sauce pan. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, about 10 minutes or until thickened. Add the nuts and vanilla. Chill date mixture well.
Roll out dough. Spread date mixture over dough, leaving a margin of dough all around the perimeter. Roll up jelly roll style. Wrap in aluminum foil and place in freezer until frozen. Slice cookies and place on ungreased cookie sheet.
Bake at 400º for approximately 6-8 minutes. |
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Servings:About 4 dozen if memory serves me correctly |
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Notes: This recipe came from our Dad's mother, Ardna Dougherty. It was Daddy who copied the recipe for me (below) on the back of a Christmas card. It's gotten smudged slightly over the years!
These cookies are super rich and super good. Your dough must be very chilled in order to work with it. I decided to make these for my company's Christmas cookie exchange one year and, having no experience in making these on my own, ended up throwing the 2nd full batch of cookies in the trash about 3:00 in the morning. I don't know what I ended up taking to the cookie exchange but it wasn't these! The dough is super rich and kept falling apart (and I was super overheated by the time it was all over). But with a little practice in later years, I figured out that it really is a matter of getting the dough super chilled -- put it in the freezer. Also, the raw dough, fresh from the freezer, is just as good as the baked version. (You didn't read that here.)
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