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Holiday Recipe: Filled Cookies
by LeAnn R. Ralph
Description: Recipe for making filled Christmas cookies.
From the book: Christmas In Dairyland (True Stories From a Wisconsin
Farm) (August 2003; copyright LeAnn R. Ralph; ISBN 1591133661; $13.95;
http://ruralroute2.com)
When I was a kid growing up on our dairy farm in Wisconsin 40 years
ago, cookies with a date filling were my dad's favorite kind. Here is
the recipe.
• 3/4 cup butter or margarine (softened)
• 3/4 cup shortening
• 2 cups sugar
• 3 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 5 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• several tablespoons of milk if the dough seems too dry
• Jam: blackberry, black raspberry, strawberry, red raspberry, plum
conserve, apple conserve, or date filling (recipes for plum and apple
conserve and date filling are included below.)
Heat oven to 350 degrees. Cream butter, margarine, sugar, eggs and
vanilla. Stir in flour, baking powder and salt. If the dough is too
dry, add 1 or 2 tablespoons of milk. If the dough seems too wet, add
1/4 or 1/2 cup of flour.
Roll out dough. Use either a small round cookie cutter or one large
round cutter. Place cookies on an ungreased baking sheet. Put one
teaspoon of jam (or other filling) in the middle of the smaller
rounds or off to one side of the larger rounds. Place another small
round on top of the small rounds; fold the larger rounds in half. Use
a fork to crimp the edges together and to poke holes in the top. Bake
for 15 minutes, or until light brown.
This recipe makes about six dozen filled cookies.
The recipe can also be used to make cut-out Christmas cookies frosted
with colored icing.
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~ Plum Conserve ~
If plum conserve is made specifically for filling cookies, store any
that remains in the refrigerator and use on toast or biscuits. The
conserve can also be sealed in pint jars. (This recipe makes about
three pints.)
• 8 to 10 fresh, large, ripe plums
• 1/2 cup of water
• 4 cups of sugar
• 2 cups of raisins
• 1 cup chopped walnuts
• 2 tablespoons of lemon juice
Pit the plums and chop into small pieces. Place in a large saucepan
and add the sugar and water. Boil for 10 minutes, stirring constantly.
Add the lemon juice, raisins and walnuts and cook for 10 minutes
longer, stirring constantly. (Note: Recipe can also be made using 3
cups of chopped apples instead of plums. Add 1/2 teaspoon of
cinnamon.)
~ Date Filling ~
• 3 cups chopped dates
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 2/3 cups water
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
Put all ingredients into a saucepan and cook over low heat, stirring
constantly, until thickened (10 or 15 minutes).
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LeAnn R. Ralph is the author of the books "Cream of the Crop (More
True Stories from Wisconsin Farm)" (trade paperback, Sept. 2005);
"Christmas in Dairyland (True Stories from a Wisconsin Farm" (trade
paperback 2003); "Give Me a Home Where the Dairy Cows Roam" (trade
paperback 2004); "Preserve Your Family History (A Step-by-Step Guide
for Interviewing Family Members and Writing Oral Histories" (e-book
2004). You are invited to read sample chapters, order books and sign
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http://ruralroute2.com
