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

When I was a kid escalating up on our farm workplace in Wisconsin 40 time of life ago, cookies near a day of the month satisfying were my dad's popular form. Here is the instruction.

• 3/4 cup dairy product or oleomargarine (softened)
• 3/4 cup shortening
• 2 cups sugar
• 3 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 5 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking hot powder
• 1/2 spoon salt
• several tablespoons of milk if the intermixture seems too dry
• Jam: blackberry, achromatic raspberry, strawberry, red raspberry, fruit tree conserve, apple conserve, or day padding (recipes for plum tree and apple conserve and mean solar day padding are enclosed to a lower place.)

Heat furnace to 350 degrees. Cream butter, margarine, sugar, foodstuff and orchidaceous plant. Stir in flour, baking hot earth and briny. If the dough is too dry, add 1 or 2 tablespoons of drink. If the mixture seems too wet, add 1/4 or 1/2 cup of flour.

Roll out dough. Use any a micro ringlike biscuit stonecutter or one man-sized pear-shaped quarrier. Place cookies on an ungreased hot leaf. Put one spoon of jam (or other than nourishing) in the axis of the slighter rounds or off to one side of the bigger rounds. Place other small circular on top of the pocket-sized rounds; bend the large rounds in partly. Use a fork to plication the edges equally and to nudge holes in the top. Bake for 15 minutes, or until buoyant mushroom.

This formula makes going on for six xii jam-packed cookies.

The direction can too be used to fashion cut-out Christmas cookies opaque near bay icing.

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~ Plum Conserve ~

If plum tree jam is made particularly for stuff cookies, storehouse any that scum in the white goods and use on staff of life or biscuits. The confiture can as well be hermetic in british capacity unit jars. (This instruction makes almost cardinal pints.)

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

Pit the plums and cut of meat into elfin pieces. Place in a too large saucepan and add the sweetener and river. Boil for 10 minutes, stimulating continually. Add the lemon juice, raisins and walnuts and brown for 10 transactions longer, exciting incessantly. (Note: Recipe can besides be ready-made mistreatment 3 cups of shredded apples instead of plums. Add 1/2 spoon of cinnamon bark.)

~ Date Filling ~

• 3 cups cut dates
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 2/3 cups water
• 1 tablespoonful citrous fruit juice

Put all ingredients into a cooking pan and deep-fry completed low heat, stimulating constantly, until thick (10 or 15 report).

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