Filled Cookies

Ingredients

• one cup of sugar
• one-half cup of shortening
• one egg
• one-half cup of milk
• three and one-half cups of flour
• two teaspoons of cream of tartar
• one teaspoon of soda
• one teaspoon of vanilla
• one cup of chopped raisins
• one-half cup of sugar
• one-half cup of water
• two teaspoons lemon juice
• one tablespoon of flour

Method

1. 1

   Roll the dough into a thin sheet and cut with cookie cutter.

2. 2

   Spread one round with filling and place another over it.

3. 3

   Bake in hot oven.

4. 4

   For the filling, boil the raisins, sugar, water, lemon juice, and flour until thick.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from For the comfort of the family (1914) by Josephine Story, page 10. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

filled cookies which are proclahned by strangers and inti- mates alike toothsome morsels. To make them take one cup of sugar, one-half cup of short- ening — chicken fat is excellent — one eggy one- half cup of milk, three and one-half cups of flour with which has been sifted two teaspoons of cream of tartar and one teaspoon of soda, one teaspoon of vanilla. Roll the dough into a thin sheet and cut with cooky cutter. Spread SIMPLE AND SANE SUNDAY 51 one round with filling and place another over it. Bake in hot oven. The filling may be of jelly, jam, or it is delectable when made of raisins thus : Take one cup of chopped raisins, one-half cup of sugar, one-half cup of water, two teaspoons lemon juice; one tablespoon of flour

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