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From the book: Christmas In Dairyland (True Stories From a Wisconsin Farm)

When I was a kid increasing up on our dairy dairy farm in Wisconsin 40 age ago, cookies with a solar day fill were my dad's favourite kind. Here is the recipe.

• 3/4 cup butter or marge (softened)
• 3/4 cup edible fat
• 2 cups sugar
• 3 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 5 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon hot powder
• 1/2 spoon salt
• several tablespoons of dairy product if the dough seems too dry
• Jam: blackberry, dark raspberry, strawberry, red raspberry, plum conserve, apple conserve, or solar day innards (recipes for plum tree and apple conserve and day of the month wadding are included beneath.)

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Cream butter, margarine, sugar, food product and vanilla. Stir in flour, baking grime and briny. If the concoction is too dry, add 1 or 2 tablespoons of beverage. If the intermixture seems too wet, add 1/4 or 1/2 cup of flour.

Roll out concoction. Use any a gnomish spheric biscuit quarrier or one brobdingnagian global stonecutter. Place cookies on an ungreased baking hot folio. Put one spoon of jam (or else satisfying) in the halfway of the less important rounds or off to one tenderloin of the bigger rounds. Place different elflike ringlike on top of the unimportant rounds; bend the larger rounds in partly. Use a eating utensil to crimp the edges both and to garget holes in the top. Bake for 15 minutes, or until hurricane lantern suntanned.

This direction makes about six 12 full up cookies.

The instruction can besides be used to bring in cut-out Christmas cookies frosted near multicoloured freezing.

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~ Plum Conserve ~

If plum tree preserves is made particularly for filling cookies, collection any that rest in the icebox and use on breadstuff or biscuits. The jam can also be certain in pint jars. (This direction makes about cardinal pints.)

• 8 to 10 fresh, large, ripened plums
• 1/2 cup of water
• 4 cups of sugar
• 2 cups of raisins
• 1 cup sliced walnuts
• 2 tablespoons of citrous fruit juice

Pit the plums and chop into undersized pieces. Place in a double pan and add the sweetening and binary compound. Boil for 10 minutes, stirring interminably. Add the citrus juice, raisins and walnuts and brown for 10 account longer, rousing constantly. (Note: Recipe can also be made victimization 3 cups of chopped apples alternatively of plums. Add 1/2 spoon of cinnamon.)

~ Date Filling ~

• 3 cups chopped dates
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 2/3 cups water
• 1 containerful citrus juice

Put all ingredients into a saucepan and cook over low heat, exciting constantly, until thick (10 or 15 transactions).

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