Cookie Recipes
Trilbies
Yield: 8 dozen cookies
Ingredients
Cookies
- 1 cup shortening
- 1 cup light brown sugar, firmly packed
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 eggs
- 2 1/2 cups old-fashioned rolled oats, uncooked
- 1 2/3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
Filling
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup dates, pitted and chopped
Instructions
- Mix shortening, brown sugar, eggs and vanilla extract on medium speed until mixed well.
- Put rolled oats in food processor or blender. Blend about 60 seconds to make oat flour. Makes about 2 cups.
- In a separate bowl, combine the oat flour, flour, baking soda and salt. Add the flour mixture to the shortening mixture. Stir until ingredients combine into a dough. Cover; refrigerate overnight.
- Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a cookie sheet.
- Roll out chilled dough on a floured surface to a thickness of 1/8 inch. Use a small (about 1/2-inch diameter) well floured cookie cutter to make bite size cookies. Using a thin bladed metal spatula, transfer cookies to the prepared cookie sheet.
- Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, or until set. Transfer cookies at once to wire racks to cool.
- While cookies are cooling, prepare filling. Combine sugar, water, and dates in a saucepan. Cook 20 to 25 minutes, or until thick. Filling will be like a clear, thick jam with small pieces of dates in it. Let mixture cool. You should have about 1 1/8 cups of filling.
- Spread about 1/2 teaspoon date filling on each of one half of the cooled cookies; top with remaining cookies to make sandwich cookies.
Attribution
Posted by kdipaolo at Recipe Goldmine May 9, 2001.