Date Pinwheel Cookies Recipe
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Ingredients: Cookie Dough:
½ cup butter
½ cup light brown sugar, packed
½ cup granulated sugar
½ t. vanilla
1 egg, well beaten
2 cups sifted all purpose flour
¼ t. baking soda
Filling:
1 package (7¼ oz.) pitted dates
¼ cup granulated sugar
Dash salt
⅓ cup water
1 cup chopped nuts
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Directions:Cookie Dough:
Cream butter; add brown sugar, ½ cup granulated sugar, vanilla and egg.
Beat until light. Sift together flour and baking soda. Mix in dry ingredients and chill until firm enough to roll.
Filling:
Cut dates into small pieces and put in a sauce pan with ¼ cup granulated sugar, salt and water. Mix well and bring to a boil.
Simmer for 5 minutes, stirring often. Add nuts. Cool.
Divide the chilled dough in half. Roll each half, on floured waxed paper, into a 9 x 12 inch rectangle. Work with one half of the dough at the time. Return the other half to the refrigerator until the first rectangle is completed.
Spread each rectangle with half the filling and roll up tightly from the end.
Wrap in wax paper or plastic wrap. Chill over night. Slice the rolled dough ⅛ inch thick.
Bake in a preheated 375º oven for 10 minutes until lightly browned. |
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Notes: This was always my favorite cookie. When I moved away to New York and then later to Indianapolis, I could expect at Christmas a tin of these cookies in the mail. My mother made sure that I had something to remind me of growing up at 407 Atwater Street,
Burlington, N.C.
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