Something Good For Saturday

We called my grandmother's sister Auntie.  She was a cool lady.  She lived life fully and was the family photographer.  Her husband was Warren Meeker for whom Meeker school is named.  He was a white haired professor who generally ignored his great nephew when I was over there.  Their house always smelled wonderful. Like my grandmother Auntie was a wonderful cook. One of the things she made was a date filled oatmeal cookie.  They were wonderful.  Sort of like little flavor volcanoes filled with wonderful taste and sweetness.

Auntie's Date Filled Cookies (Submitted by Ethel Underwood Meeker)

These are great and well worth the effort to make! Ginny Jackson

1cup     Sugar 1cup     Shortening 1           Egg ½ cup   Sour milk 2 ½      cups        Flour, sifted 1 tsp     Baking powder 1tsp      Soda

1  pinch    Salt 2  cups            Quick cooking oatmeal 1  lb.         Dates ½ cup       Sugar 1  cup       Water 1  pinch    Salt

Procedure

1   In a large bowl, cream sugar and shortening.

2   Add egg and sour milk.

3   In another bowl mix: flour, soda, baking powder, salt, and oatmeal.

4   Add to first mixture.

5   Cool dough.

6   Roll very thin using as little as possible of flour on board. Use a round cookie cutter to make cookies.

7   In a saucepan cook: dates, sugar, water, and pinch of salt; until dates are soft. (May add nuts, coconut or raisins to extend date mixture)

8   Put date mixture on cookie and put another cookie on top of date mixture.

9   Bake:  400° until cookies are brown.

Let me know if you make them.. Enjoy!