Date Cookies

Ingredients

• Two small cups brown sugar
• one cup butter and lard
• one small teaspoon soda
• half cup sour cream
• two cups oatmeal
• two cups flour
• vanilla flavoring
• one pound dates cut small
• half cup sugar
• juice of one lemon

Method

1. 1

   Cook dates, sugar and lemon juice with enough water to cook until dates are soft.

2. 2

   Cream sugar and butter, mix soda and sour cream, and add.

3. 3

   Into this mix well the oatmeal, flour and flavoring.

4. 4

   If the mixture is too thin to roll, add more white flour.

5. 5

   Roll out the oatmeal mixture quite thinly and cut with a cutter.

6. 6

   Put a spoonful of the date mixture between two of the cookies and press the edges together.

7. 7

   Bake until brown.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 24 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Toronto Cook Book (1915) by Powell, E. J. Mrs.,d.b. 1853, page 20. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Date Cookies Two small cups brown sugar, one cup butter and lard, one small teaspoon soda, half cup sour cream, two cups oatmeal, two cups flour, vanilla flavoring, one pound dates cut small, half cup sugar, brown or white, juice of one lemon

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.