Date Cookies

Ingredients

• 2 cups oatmeal
• 2 cups flour
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 cup butter
• % cup lard
• X cup milk
• 2 teaspoonsful baking powder
• 1 lb. dates
• IX cups hot water
• % cup brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Mix oatmeal, flour, and sugar together, then add remaining ingredients.

2. 2

   Roll very thin, cut as for cookies, spread filling on, and bake in a slow oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Magnet cream separator cook book (1910) by Hamilton Petrie Manufacturing Co. Ltd., page 19. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

cup brown sugar, X cup butter creamed, 1 egg well beaten, cream again with above, mix X teaspoon of soda dissolved in IX teaspoons of water, X teaspoon allspice, cloves and nutmeg, flour enough to make a cake of usual con- sistency, add % lb. seedless raisins. Do not stir, but mix carefully, turn in a well buttered pan and bake in moderate oven. PERFECTLY SATISFIED. Mr. Franz Haffner, of Plum Coulee, Man., says: — "We are perfectly satisfied with the MAGNET. It is easy to turn and clean. COBURG CAKES. X lb. sugar, brown, X lb. butter, 2 eggs, X lb. flour, little salt, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, IX teaspoons mixed spice, 1 tablespoon treacle, X teaspoon baking soda. Put flour and sugr in basin, add spice and soda and mix well, put butter into a pan to melt, add syrup, pour in among dry ingredients, beat up the eggs, add them. Bake about 20 minutes in moderate oven. Bake in small tins. — Miss Lilly Lindsay, Guelph. W. L. Kirkpatrick, Saskatoon, Sask., 1909, says:— We arc pleased with the MAGNET. It saves us money every day and is safe when children are around. " HOT WATER CAKE. 1 ©gg, 3 tablespoons sugar, 1 tablespoon butter, 1 cup' syrup, 1 tea- spoon soda, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 teaspoon cloves, a little nutmeg, 2 cups flour. Mix altogether well and then add 1 cup boiling water. Mix thoroughly. Bake in quick oven. — Mrs. J. Wideman, of Castor, Alta. I have used a number of other makes, but find the MAGNET is the best machine 1 ever used." Wm. Mitchell, Fergus, Ont.— The MAGNET square gears are superior to worm gears and we make better butter from the MAGNET. KENTISH CAKE. X lb. butter, X lb. flour, X lb. sugar, 1 oz. grated chocolate, 1 oz. grated almonds, 3 eggs, 1 oz. desiccated cocoanut, % teaspoon baking powder. Beat to a cream butter and sugar, add almonds chocolate, cocoanut. Beat the eggs till very light and mix baking powder through the flour. Add those to the others and beat all well together. Bake in a flat cake tin for 40 minutes. Pearl A. Arthur, Rockburn, Que., 1909, says:— The MAGNET turns easy, skims clean and is easily washed. We make better butter now than with the cans. We like the MAGNET. GINGER COOKIES. 1 cup sugar, 1 cup shortening, 2 eggs, 1 cup molasses, 1 teaspoon ginger, 2 teaspoons soda, 1 teaspoon of mixed spice, a pinch of salt, 4 tablespoons hot water, flour enough to mix. — Mrs. James Hill, Edy's Mills, Ont. MORE BUTTER, BETTER BUTTER AND GET BETTER PRICE. Edwin R. Allaby, Harford Brook, N.B., 1906, says: — I make more butter, better butter, churn easier, get a better price with same number of cows, since I got the MAGNET. DATE COOKIES. 2 cups oatmeal, 2 cups flour, 1 cup brown sugar, 1 cup butter, % cup lard X cup milk, 2 teaspoonsful baking powder. Directions — Mix oat- meal, flour and sugar together, then add remaining ingredients. Roll very thin and cut as for cookies, spreading the following filling on, put- ting two together and baking in slow oven. FILLING — 1 lb. dates, IX cups hot water, % cup brown Bugar. Cook until soft. Add 1 teaspoon vanilla

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